Ben Walton wrote: >> Ben, can you confirm that touch from coreutils-8.7 did not have this >> problem? I'll wait for confirmation before pushing. > > I just built 8.7 (I skipped from 8.4 -> 8.8) with my build script and > tested it. It works correctly, so I'd say that yes, the problem was > introduced in 8.8. This was on sparc, I didn't make the verification > on i386, but I will if you'd like.
Thanks for confirming. That should be enough. I've pushed that change to coreutils, and am marking this issue as closed.