On 3/9/21 6:03 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Thanks for the update and appreciate your diligence...
You're welcome. Closing the bug report.
On 2021/03/08 19:58, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/8/21 6:29 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Warning, '-f' assuming '-r' was intended
I don't think that'd be helpful, given that -f now has a well-defined
and common meaning that doesn't agree with what you remember, and that
in 4.2BSD (circa 1983) -f
On 3/8/21 6:29 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Warning, '-f' assuming '-r' was intended
I don't think that'd be helpful, given that -f now has a well-defined
and common meaning that doesn't agree with what you remember, and that
in 4.2BSD (circa 1983) -f meant something quite different from -r and
the
On 2021/03/08 18:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
I don't know which version of touch I remember it from as I've
use a few versions of unix, as in (scratching memory):
some form of SCO Unix on Intel chips (early 80's, pre IBM-PC), HPUX, Sun
Unix(a BSD variant), SunOS (a SysV variant), IRIX(sgi),
On 2021/03/08 18:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/8/21 5:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Data loss shown in original bug submission. As mentioned/documented
it was use of:
'touch -f '
Sure, but what was the context of that command? Was it part of a shell
script? What was the script for? Can we see
On 3/8/21 5:50 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Data loss shown in original bug submission. As mentioned/documented
it was use of:
'touch -f '
Sure, but what was the context of that command? Was it part of a shell
script? What was the script for? Can we see a copy? That sort of thing.
I don't know
On 2021/03/08 16:07, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 3/8/21 3:27 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
gnu accepts but ignores the previously active '-f'(from) switch
GNU "touch -f" has always been a no-op and has never meant "from" as far
as I know - though I admit I looked back only to 1992. Perhaps you're
On 3/8/21 3:27 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
gnu accepts but ignores the previously active '-f'(from) switch
GNU "touch -f" has always been a no-op and has never meant "from" as far
as I know - though I admit I looked back only to 1992. Perhaps you're
thinking of some other "touch" program? If so,
gnu accepts but ignores the previously active '-f'(from) switch
and replaced it with '-r' to be compatible with posix, likely,
but created a meta-data loss case in that if someone
uses it:
ll foo bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 0 Mar 8 14:33 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 0 Dec 10 2012 foo
Want to transfer D/T from
