Fixing "touch" to reset ancient/weired/far-future timestamps... / was: Re: Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >   
> >> John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> >>     
> >>> [Roland and I are bouncing a proposal back and forth...]
> >>>       
> > [snip]
> >   
> >> We still miss touch(1) in the list of 64 bit binaries
> >> in order to be able to correct the time stamps for problematic files.
...
> This is not architectural, but is the only way to fix this to use a 
> 64-bit binary?  Can't we fix it using uint64_t or somesuch in a 32-bit 
> program?  (I'm talking about the specific deficiency for 
> /usr/bin/touch.)  I'd like the fix to be available from a 32-bit 
> environment as well as a 64-bit one, otherwise the "fix" is incomplete.

The only way to stat(2) such files is to use a 64 bit binary, so yes we
need a 64 bit touch



Jörg

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