[PATCH] Ignore touch -f flag

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 14:37:12 UTC 2007


On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:47:14PM +0100, Tobias Poschwatta wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>below is a small patch to make 'touch' accept and ignore the -f flag.
>(-f is ignored by coreutils touch, too). I stumbled over this when
>trying to bootstrap pkgsrc on a uclibc/busybox system (which now
>succeeds).

touch -f is not part of SUSv3, so should depend on some TOUCH_GNU_COMPAT
toggle, imho.

Of course there are several flags missing that seem to be required by
SUSv3..



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