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Re: `touch' broken on GNU
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: `touch' broken on GNU |
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Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:41:02 -0700 |
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Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> writes:
> Before I start digging deeper: can someone imaging offhand why `touch'
> broke?
Thanks for the report. Which version of 'touch'? The email didn't
say. Is this CVS coreutils or some other version?
> thomas@leibniz:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ src/touch foo
> thomas@leibniz:/var/tmp/coreutils/build $ ls -l foo
> -rw-r--r-- 1 thomas users 0 Jan 1 1970 foo
It may be a problem in the Hurd's implementation of futimesat and/or
futimes. Perhaps you can strace or truss or do whatever the Hurd
equivalent is, to see which system calls are being executed?