> From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 17 Mar 2001 10:52:34 +0100
>
> I was a little reluctant to add it there, since that usage is obsolescent --
> but support for that form is not going away....
Actually, the latest POSIX draft no longer allows an implementation to
support that obsolescent form, which means that support for that usage
must be removed once POSIX 1003.1-200x becomes official, if we want to
stay POSIX-compliant.
Here's a proposed patch to document this compatibility problem.
2001-03-17 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/fileutils.texi: Warn that touch DATE FILE will be withdrawn.
===================================================================
RCS file: doc/fileutils.texi,v
retrieving revision 4.0.39.3
retrieving revision 4.0.39.5
diff -pu -r4.0.39.3 -r4.0.39.5
--- doc/fileutils.texi 2001/02/21 08:55:13 4.0.39.3
+++ doc/fileutils.texi 2001/03/17 20:15:58 4.0.39.5
@@ -2960,7 +2960,9 @@ If the first @var{file} would be a valid
option and no timestamp is given with any of the @samp{-d}, @samp{-r},
or @samp{-t} options and the @samp{--} argument is not given, that
argument is interpreted as the time for the other files instead of
-as a file name.
+as a file name. Warning: this usage is obsolescent, and future versions
+of @sc{posix} will require that support for it be withdrawn. Use
+@option{-t} instead.
@cindex empty files, creating
Any @var{file} that does not exist is created empty.
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