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Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: touch gets stuck for named pipes |
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Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:01:44 +0200 |
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Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> So would this simplification be appropriate, which just handles systems
> where utime("file", &ut); is OK while utime("file", NULL); is not?
Note that utime(,0) requires less privileges than utime(,&ut). For the
latter you need to be owner, whereas the former only requires write
access.
Andreas.
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