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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:14:47 -0500
From: JT Williams <jtw AT sfbrgenetics DOT org>
Subject: Re: EACCES using 'touch'
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Follow-up to previous posting.

I have tested the touch program from the djgpp ports of fileutils
versions 3.16, 4.0-r[2-5], and 4.1-r[1-7].  All versions refuse to
touch the timestamp on a directory, emitting a 'permission denied'
message.  This behaviour is either a feature or a very old bug.

-- 
j

On Sat|2008.09.20, jt williams wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On a plain vanilla DOS 5.0/djgpp 2.03+ system, running
>bash 2.04.7(2), I am unable to 'touch' a directory (but
>touching a file works as expected):
>
>% touch foo
>% mkdir bar
>% touch bar
>touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES)
>% touch -r foo bar
>touch: creating `bar': Permission denied (EACCES)
>
>-- 
>j