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From: burton@unixg.ubc.ca (Steve Cumming, net.leftist)
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Subject: touch(1), utimes(2), nfs on sparc running SunOS4.1
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Date: 5 Dec 90 02:00:00 GMT
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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