bug#47014: Design flaw: incompatible touch '-f' gnu-option causes loss of (meta)data by default

[L A Walsh]

On 2021/03/08 18:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > I don't know which version of touch I remember it from as I've
> > use a few versions of unix, as in (scratching memory):
> > some form of SCO Unix on Intel chips (early 80's, pre IBM-PC), HPUX, Sun 
> > Unix(a BSD variant), SunOS (a SysV variant), IRIX(sgi),
> > among others whose names I don't remember.
>
> It'd be helpful to nail that down.
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	Un, given the usage of those spans 4 decades, 
early 80's for Intel, mid-80's for HPUX, late80's/early90's-sun,
mid90's-early 2000's sgi, after that mostly linux flavors, that
asking a bit much.  My email archive only goes back to mid-late 90's.