Hello,
I have found a bug in `touch' command from fileutils 4.1.8
that `touch -c' wrongly reports an error for non-existent file.
(At least) SUSv2 seems to say `touch -c FILE' should not write any
diagnostic messages when FILE does not exist.
% touch --version
touch (fileutils) 4.1.8
[...]
% touch --no-create non-existent-file
touch: setting times of `non-existent-file': No such file or directory
%
Fileutils-3.16 and 4.0's `touch' appear to behave as SUSv2 says,
but 4.1 and later version have this problem.
Here is a correction I made.
2002-04-16 TAKAI Kousuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/touch.c (touch): Don't report an error when --no-create
is in effect and error was ENOENT.
diff -ru fileutils-4.1.8.orig/src/touch.c fileutils-4.1.8/src/touch.c
--- fileutils-4.1.8.orig/src/touch.c 2002-02-16 18:01:38.000000000 +0900
+++ fileutils-4.1.8/src/touch.c 2002-04-16 02:43:23.041293648 +0900
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
status = utime (file, &utb);
}
- if (status)
+ if (status && !(no_create && errno == ENOENT))
{
if (open_errno)
error (0, open_errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file));
[patch ends here]
Sorry for my poor English.
--
TAKAI Kousuke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dept. of Communications and Computer Engineering,
Graduate School of Infomatics, Kyoto University, Japan
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