digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 17681] New: [Function setTimes] additional function touch(f)
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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17681 Issue ID: 17681 Summary: [Function setTimes] additional function touch(f) Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All URL: http://dlang.org/library/std/file.html OS: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: phobos Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: mt smartdolphin.de Problem on Linux: When trying to set the date (mtime) of an file f, from owner y by user x, who as writing permissions, via: import std.datetime; auto time = Clock.currTime(); setTimes(f,time,time); You get "Operation not permitted." This is caused on linux by the rule, that if you are not the owner of the file you may only set the mtime of a file to current time. Which could not be achieved when calling setTimes(f, Clock.currTime(),Clock.currTime()); So a function touch(f), which ensures this behavior would be useful. The work around in the moment is to use execute("touch ~"filename"). Not the right for a system programming language :-( --
Jul 25 2017