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

[John Plocher]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I also remain unfond of the approach of turning a bunch of key programs 
> in /usr/bin into isaexec() links.  While the isaexec() approach was not 
> unreasonable for a few utilities that aren't run frequently like 
> prtconf, I don't think the solution scales well.


Maybe there is an opportunity to leverage IPS here - have it install the
correct binaries from the repo (32, 64, x64, SPARC, Power, ARM...) based
on the isaexec-abilities of the target platform.

(i.e., don't do isaexec() at runtime, do it at install time :-)

   -John