touch-dereference.patch (3335B)
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
- SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
- SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
- touch: add -h to change symlink timestamps, where supported
- diff -r -U3 coreutils-5.0.orig/src/touch.c coreutils-5.0/src/touch.c
- --- coreutils-5.0/src/touch.c 2002-12-20 20:09:22.000000000 +0000
- +++ coreutils-5.0/src/touch.c 2022-05-16 20:31:37.801988595 +0100
- @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
- /* (-r) If nonzero, use times from a reference file. */
- static int use_ref;
- +/* (-h) If true, change the times of an existing symlink, if possible. */
- +static int no_dereference;
- +
- /* (-t) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in POSIX format. */
- static int posix_date;
- @@ -110,6 +113,7 @@
- {"date", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
- {"file", required_argument, 0, 'r'}, /* FIXME: phase out --file */
- {"reference", required_argument, 0, 'r'},
- + {"no-dereference", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
- {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
- {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
- {0, 0, 0, 0}
- @@ -138,7 +142,7 @@
- int fd = -1;
- int open_errno = 0;
- - if (! no_create)
- + if (! (no_create || no_dereference))
- {
- /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
- fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY,
- @@ -158,7 +162,7 @@
- the other one. If we have the file descriptor already, use fstat.
- Otherwise, either we're in no-create mode (and hence didn't call open)
- or FILE is inaccessible or a directory, so we have to use stat. */
- - if (fd != -1 ? fstat (fd, &sbuf) : stat (file, &sbuf))
- + if (fd != -1 ? fstat (fd, &sbuf) : (no_dereference ? lstat (file, &sbuf) : stat (file, &sbuf)))
- {
- if (open_errno)
- error (0, open_errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file));
- @@ -223,7 +227,7 @@
- }
- else
- {
- - if (no_create && errno == ENOENT)
- + if ((no_create || no_dereference) && errno == ENOENT)
- return 0;
- error (0, errno, _("setting times of %s"), quote (file));
- }
- @@ -254,6 +258,9 @@
- -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
- -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
- -f (ignored)\n\
- + -h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced\n\
- + file (useful only on systems that can change the\n\
- + timestamps of a symlink)\n\
- -m change only the modification time\n\
- "), stdout);
- fputs (_("\
- @@ -289,7 +296,7 @@
- change_times = no_create = use_ref = posix_date = flexible_date = 0;
- - while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
- + while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fhmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
- {
- switch (c)
- {
- @@ -315,6 +322,10 @@
- case 'f':
- break;
- + case 'h':
- + no_dereference = true;
- + break;
- +
- case 'm':
- change_times |= CH_MTIME;
- break;
- @@ -358,7 +369,10 @@
- if (use_ref)
- {
- - if (stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
- + /* Don't use (no_dereference ? lstat : stat) (args), since stat
- + might be an object-like macro. */
- + if (no_dereference ? lstat (ref_file, &ref_stats)
- + : stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
- error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
- _("failed to get attributes of %s"), quote (ref_file));
- date_set++;