> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:25:47 -0500
> From: David Boyce <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>
> On a side note, I've often wondered why, after all these years and
> discussions like this one, nobody's modified at least the GNU version
> of touch to do its work by opening the file for write and writing 0
> bytes to it, or appending one byte and then removing it, or whatever
> it takes to force an mtime update, rather than using the flawed utimes
> syscall.
Did you miss this portion of Coreutils' NEWS?
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable]
** New features
cp, install, mv, and touch now preserve nanosecond resolution on
file timestamps, on platforms that have the 'utimensat' and
'futimens' system calls.
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