[1246] in Athena Bugs
updating mod time of files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Oct 26 08:59:46 1988
From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 88 08:59:33 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
i would argue that an append operation
performed on an existing file should
update the touch date of that file
regardless of whether the append operation
was vacuous.
example:
% ls -l /tmp/foo
-rw------- 1 geer 9265 Oct 26 08:51 /tmp/foo
% cat >> /tmp/foo
^D
% ls -l /tmp/foo
-rw------- 1 geer 9265 Oct 26 08:51 /tmp/foo
in other words, i would think that the
vacuous append operation should have
been equivalent to a touch operation.
am i missing something?
--dan
