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Re: For 1.5.10: avoid "touch" for timestap granularity



On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:59:51PM +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> echo -n > stamp-doc-rc
> 
> Depends which is most portable, I guess.

It's been a while since I was truly up on the incompatibility issues
of various flavors of Bourne-derivative shells, but IIRC -n isn't
portable.  I believe ':' is...

Food for thought:

How long has this code been in mutt's build environment?  When has
anyone ever complained about it being a problem?

It's probably true that some old BSD systems handle touch poorly, but
it's almost certainly true that those systems are hopelessly out of
date, unsupported and unsupportable, and irreparably broken in any
number of ways...  I'm personally largely of the opinion that anyone
who insists on using such a system gets what they deserve, and as such
this issue isn't really worth "fixing".  Software portability is an
excellent goal, but ancient systems that almost no one uses and can't
be fixed aren't worth trying to support.  But that's my opinion. =8^)

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