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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 09:47:12 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> Some implementations of touch would read a byte and write it back.
> A total disaster for an append-only file.
> How many broken versions of touch have I seen?  5?

The problem was that there was no single way to implement
"touch" that would always do what was wanted.