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bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#27942: Bug regarding "touch" command
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 09:17:50 -0700
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L A Walsh wrote:
You run "touch -". Whatever file stdout happens to be associated with, gets touched. It's the same idea as "cat -", except with stdout rather than stdin.


The difference between that and updating due to write activity being
mostly that ctime is also written?

No, that's not a difference. Try running 'touch foo; strace touch foo; strace touch - >>foo'. I did that, and saw the same system call being used to alter foo's last-modified time, in both strace outputs.





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