burton@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Cumming, net.leftist) (12/05/90)
This is probably very old news, but touch seems to fail when the file in question is NFS mounted and already exists. I have been unable to determine if the arch/os of the remote system are important. (Can't rsh to find out what they are.) One gets the suspicious Dec 31 1969 date. This is not a big problem for me, as I've grabbed a 4.3 touch which actually scribbles on the file. Sun-touch tries to use utime(2), passing the advertised NULL pointer, which is supposed to update mod time and access time to now. I'm just a little curious about what the bug is... burton@unixg.ubc.ca