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From: Robert Riebisch <Robert DOT Riebisch AT arcor DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: EACCES using 'touch'
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:51:53 +0200
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JT Williams wrote:

> I have tested the touch program from the djgpp ports of fileutils
> versions 3.16, 4.0-r[2-5], and 4.1-r[1-7].  All versions refuse to
> touch the timestamp on a directory, emitting a 'permission denied'
> message.  This behaviour is either a feature or a very old bug.

1) You only tried DJPP 2.03 ports or even older.
2) DJGPP 2.04's beta/v2gnu/fil41b.zip silently ignores such requests.
3) Such requests are probably ignored, because plain DOS doesn't offer
an API to change a directory's timestamp. Touch would have to access the
FAT (i.e., a file's directory entry) directly, but it doesn't for safety
reasons.

A nice tool to do this is
<http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/hs_freeware/dirtouch.zip> written
in Turbo Pascal.

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