Re: patch: touch --verbose

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 4/7/21 10:11 PM, Michael Cook wrote:
> Attached, please find a patch to add the --verbose (-v) option to the touch
> command.

This was already discussed:
  https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#touch
  "
  touch --verbose.
  This could not be implemented robustly. Also xargs --verbose or (set -x; 
touch *) are sufficient
  "

Furthermore, the patch makes touch(1) behave differently depending on whether 
--verbose
is given or not: 1x vs. 2x fd_reopen().  I think this is the kind of side 
effects which
is not acceptable for a simple diagnostic option.

Or to use Padraig's words from the thread referenced from above's URL:

  https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-coreutils/2012-04/msg00006.html
  > Also to indicate as to whether files were created or not,
  > is problematic, I don't think that can be done atomically.

Have a nice day,
Berny