* tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script. Test today's change.
* tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other.
* tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test.
(td): New target.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.
+2008-01-06 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
+
+ touch: add a test for today's change.
+ * tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script. Test today's change.
+ * tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other.
+ * tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test.
+ (td): New target.
+ * NEWS: Mention the improvement.
+
2008-01-06 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
touch: ignore "-d now" option, when appropriate
env LC_CTYPE=en_US.iso88591 tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
[bug introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]
+** Improvements
+
+ "touch -d now writable-but-owned-by-someone-else" now succeeds
+ whenever that same command would succeed without "-d now".
+ Before, it would work fine with no -d option, yet it would
+ fail with the ostensibly-equivalent "-d now".
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 6.9.91 (2007-12-15) [beta]
uniq wc
## N O T E :: Please do not add new directories.
-all_t = t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 ta tb tc
+all_t = t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 ta tb tc td
.PHONY: check-root $(all_t)
check-root: $(all_t)
cd mv && $(MAKE) check TESTS=sticky-to-xpart
tc:
cd cp && $(MAKE) check TESTS=preserve-gid
+td:
+ cd touch && $(MAKE) check TESTS=now-owned-by-other
check-recursive: root-hint
# Make coreutils tests for "touch". -*-Makefile-*-
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
TESTS = \
+ now-owned-by-other \
read-only \
relative \
not-owner \
--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/sh
+# Demonstrate that "touch -d now writable-but-owned-by-other" works.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+ set -x
+ touch --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-root . $srcdir/../priv-check
+. $srcdir/../test-lib.sh
+
+group_num=$(id -g $NON_ROOT_USERNAME)
+
+# Create a file owned by root, and writable by $NON_ROOT_USERNAME.
+echo > root-owned || framework_failure
+chgrp +$group_num . root-owned || framework_failure
+chmod g+w root-owned
+
+# Ensure that the current directory is searchable by $NON_ROOT_USERNAME.
+chmod g+x .
+
+setuidgid $NON_ROOT_USERNAME env PATH="$PATH" touch -d now root-owned || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail