Re: "touch -" touching standard output

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paul Eggert on 9/25/2005 12:21 AM:
> 
> To help counteract this for futimes, we can have "touch -" touch the
> standard output, i.e., it can invoke futimes on the standard output
> rather than utimes on the file named "-".  This is pretty
> straightforward so I installed the following patch.

Does this countradict POSIX, meaning that when POSIXLY_CORRECT, 'touch -'
should be the same as 'touch ./-'?  I couldn't see anything in POSIX that
permits or forbids this change in semantics, although I agree that it
seems useful.  Also, it seems a bit strange that - maps to stdout, when it
usually maps to stdin.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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