Re: add create dir on touch

[KE Liew]

On 7/4/07, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to KE Liew on 7/4/2007 8:14 AM:
> > Rather than mkdir -P /path/to/wherever && touch
> /path/to/wherever/filename
> > It's nicer to have touch -P /path/to/wherever/filename
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  However, it should be spelled -p, not -P.
> Care to submit a patch?  Remember the documentation as well as the code.


Sorry, am not really a programmer, so no patch :(


On the other hand, I'm not sure whether the primary maintainer, Jim, is
> willing to add new features - the problem with a new feature is that you
> cannot rely on it in portable scripts, and if the action can portably be
> done with existing tools (as you have just demonstrated), then we really
> need justification before bloating touch.  I suppose you could argue that
> by doing the directory and file creation all within a single process that
> you can minimize the data races that would otherwise exist in between when
> the one process creates the directory and the other process then tries to
> create the file.



Hm, I understand where you're coming from. I've no justification for it
besides convenience.

Thanks anyway. :)


KwangErn