Re: touch -h

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pádraig Brady on 10/17/2009 10:24 AM:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> As promised, I've now implemented touch -h.  I've tested it on machines
>> with and without utimensat/lutimes.  OK to apply?
> 
> I presume -h is used to match some other system?

Yep, BSD has had it for quite some time:
http://www.ipnom.com/FreeBSD-Man-Pages/touch.1.html

In fact, it was mentioned in thread 3 years ago:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-04/msg00171.html

Besides, it is consistent with many other tools that use -h to mean
operation on symlinks proper (even though POSIX 2008 forgot to add 'touch
- -h'), including these from POSIX: chown, chgrp, file

[I still have 'chown -h' on my todo list...]

> Also I noticed a mispelling of dereferne

Fixed and pushed.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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