[PATCH] touch: do not ignore argument of -d/-t option

Mikhail Gusarov dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Sun Mar 21 08:22:47 UTC 2010


Previously -d/-t was no-op due to wrong handling of args passed to
utimes(2).

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag at dottedmag.net>
---
 coreutils/touch.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/touch.c b/coreutils/touch.c
index 3f7b265..dceb7c1 100644
--- a/coreutils/touch.c
+++ b/coreutils/touch.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int touch_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 	}
 
 	do {
-		if (utimes(*argv, reference_file ? timebuf : NULL) != 0) {
+		if (utimes(*argv, (reference_file || date_str) ? timebuf : NULL) != 0) {
 			if (errno == ENOENT) { /* no such file */
 				if (opts) { /* creation is disabled, so ignore */
 					continue;
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int touch_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 				fd = open(*argv, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666);
 				if (fd >= 0) {
 					xclose(fd);
-					if (reference_file)
+					if (reference_file || date_str)
 						utimes(*argv, timebuf);
 					continue;
 				}
-- 
1.6.3.3



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