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1 /* touch -- change modification and access times of files
2 Copyright (C) 87, 1989-1991, 1995-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
18 /* Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
19 and Randy Smith. */
21 #include <config.h>
22 #include <stdio.h>
23 #include <getopt.h>
24 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #include "system.h"
27 #include "argmatch.h"
28 #include "error.h"
29 #include "getdate.h"
30 #include "posixtm.h"
31 #include "posixver.h"
32 #include "quote.h"
33 #include "safe-read.h"
35 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no `g' prefix). */
36 #define PROGRAM_NAME "touch"
38 #define AUTHORS \
39 "Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith"
41 #ifndef STDC_HEADERS
42 time_t time ();
43 #endif
45 /* Bitmasks for `change_times'. */
46 #define CH_ATIME 1
47 #define CH_MTIME 2
49 #if !defined O_NDELAY
50 # define O_NDELAY 0
51 #endif
53 #if !defined O_NONBLOCK
54 # define O_NONBLOCK O_NDELAY
55 #endif
57 #if !defined O_NOCTTY
58 # define O_NOCTTY 0
59 #endif
61 #if !defined EISDIR
62 # define EISDIR 0
63 #endif
65 /* The name by which this program was run. */
66 char *program_name;
68 /* Which timestamps to change. */
69 static int change_times;
71 /* (-c) If nonzero, don't create if not already there. */
72 static int no_create;
74 /* (-d) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in get_date formats. */
75 static int flexible_date;
77 /* (-r) If nonzero, use times from a reference file. */
78 static int use_ref;
80 /* (-t) If nonzero, date supplied on command line in POSIX format. */
81 static int posix_date;
83 /* If nonzero, the only thing we have to do is change both the
84 modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
85 have to own the file, just be able to read and write it.
86 On some systems, we can do this if we own the file, even though
87 we have neither read nor write access to it. */
88 static int amtime_now;
90 /* New time to use when setting time. */
91 static time_t newtime;
93 /* File to use for -r. */
94 static char *ref_file;
96 /* Info about the reference file. */
97 static struct stat ref_stats;
99 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
100 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
101 enum
103 TIME_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
106 static struct option const longopts[] =
108 {"time", required_argument, 0, TIME_OPTION},
109 {"no-create", no_argument, 0, 'c'},
110 {"date", required_argument, 0, 'd'},
111 {"file", required_argument, 0, 'r'}, /* FIXME: phase out --file */
112 {"reference", required_argument, 0, 'r'},
113 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
114 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
115 {0, 0, 0, 0}
118 /* Valid arguments to the `--time' option. */
119 static char const* const time_args[] =
121 "atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", 0
124 /* The bits in `change_times' that those arguments set. */
125 static int const time_masks[] =
127 CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_MTIME, CH_MTIME
130 /* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
131 Return 0 if successful, 1 if an error occurs. */
133 static int
134 touch (const char *file)
136 int status;
137 struct stat sbuf;
138 int fd = -1;
139 int open_errno = 0;
141 if (! no_create)
143 /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
144 fd = open (file, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY,
145 S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH);
147 /* Don't save a copy of errno if it's EISDIR, since that would lead
148 touch to give a bogus diagnostic for e.g., `touch /' (assuming
149 we don't own / or have write access to it). On Solaris 5.6,
150 and probably other systems, it is EINVAL. On SunOS4, it's EPERM. */
151 if (fd == -1 && errno != EISDIR && errno != EINVAL && errno != EPERM)
152 open_errno = errno;
155 if (! amtime_now)
157 /* We're setting only one of the time values. stat the target to get
158 the other one. If we have the file descriptor already, use fstat.
159 Otherwise, either we're in no-create mode (and hence didn't call open)
160 or FILE is inaccessible or a directory, so we have to use stat. */
161 if (fd != -1 ? fstat (fd, &sbuf) : stat (file, &sbuf))
163 if (open_errno)
164 error (0, open_errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file));
165 else
167 if (no_create && errno == ENOENT)
168 return 0;
169 error (0, errno, _("failed to get attributes of %s"),
170 quote (file));
172 close (fd);
173 return 1;
177 if (fd != -1 && close (fd) < 0)
179 error (0, errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file));
180 return 1;
183 if (amtime_now)
185 /* Pass NULL to utime so it will not fail if we just have
186 write access to the file, but don't own it. */
187 status = utime (file, NULL);
189 else
191 struct utimbuf utb;
193 /* There's currently no interface to set file timestamps with
194 better than 1-second resolution, so discard any fractional
195 part of the source timestamp. */
197 if (use_ref)
199 utb.actime = ref_stats.st_atime;
200 utb.modtime = ref_stats.st_mtime;
202 else
203 utb.actime = utb.modtime = newtime;
205 if (!(change_times & CH_ATIME))
206 utb.actime = sbuf.st_atime;
208 if (!(change_times & CH_MTIME))
209 utb.modtime = sbuf.st_mtime;
211 status = utime (file, &utb);
214 if (status)
216 if (open_errno)
217 error (0, open_errno, _("creating %s"), quote (file));
218 else
220 if (no_create && errno == ENOENT)
221 return 0;
222 error (0, errno, _("setting times of %s"), quote (file));
224 return 1;
227 return 0;
230 void
231 usage (int status)
233 if (status != 0)
234 fprintf (stderr, _("Try `%s --help' for more information.\n"),
235 program_name);
236 else
238 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
239 fputs (_("\
240 Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
242 "), stdout);
243 fputs (_("\
244 Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\
245 "), stdout);
246 fputs (_("\
247 -a change only the access time\n\
248 -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
249 -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
250 -f (ignored)\n\
251 -m change only the modification time\n\
252 "), stdout);
253 fputs (_("\
254 -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
255 -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
256 --time=WORD set time given by WORD: access atime use (same as -a)\n\
257 modify mtime (same as -m)\n\
258 "), stdout);
259 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
260 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
261 fputs (_("\
263 Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.\n\
264 "), stdout);
265 printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
267 exit (status);
271 main (int argc, char **argv)
273 int c;
274 int date_set = 0;
275 int err = 0;
277 program_name = argv[0];
278 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
279 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
280 textdomain (PACKAGE);
282 atexit (close_stdout);
284 change_times = no_create = use_ref = posix_date = flexible_date = 0;
286 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
288 switch (c)
290 case 0:
291 break;
293 case 'a':
294 change_times |= CH_ATIME;
295 break;
297 case 'c':
298 no_create++;
299 break;
301 case 'd':
302 flexible_date++;
303 newtime = get_date (optarg, NULL);
304 if (newtime == (time_t) -1)
305 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format %s"), quote (optarg));
306 date_set++;
307 break;
309 case 'f':
310 break;
312 case 'm':
313 change_times |= CH_MTIME;
314 break;
316 case 'r':
317 use_ref++;
318 ref_file = optarg;
319 break;
321 case 't':
322 posix_date++;
323 if (! posixtime (&newtime, optarg,
324 PDS_LEADING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS))
325 error (1, 0, _("invalid date format %s"), quote (optarg));
326 date_set++;
327 break;
329 case TIME_OPTION: /* --time */
330 change_times |= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg,
331 time_args, time_masks);
332 break;
334 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
336 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
338 default:
339 usage (1);
343 if (change_times == 0)
344 change_times = CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME;
346 if ((use_ref && (posix_date || flexible_date))
347 || (posix_date && flexible_date))
349 error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
350 usage (1);
353 if (use_ref)
355 if (stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
356 error (1, errno, _("failed to get attributes of %s"), quote (ref_file));
357 date_set++;
360 /* The obsolete `MMDDhhmm[YY]' form is valid IFF there are
361 two or more non-option arguments. */
362 if (!date_set && 2 <= argc - optind && !STREQ (argv[optind - 1], "--")
363 && posix2_version () < 200112)
365 if (posixtime (&newtime, argv[optind], PDS_TRAILING_YEAR))
367 if (! getenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT"))
369 struct tm const *tm = localtime (&newtime);
370 error (0, 0,
371 _("warning: `touch %s' is obsolete; use `touch -t %04d%02d%02d%02d%02d.%02d'"),
372 argv[optind],
373 tm->tm_year + 1900, tm->tm_mon + 1, tm->tm_mday,
374 tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min, tm->tm_sec);
377 optind++;
378 date_set++;
381 if (!date_set)
383 if ((change_times & (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME)) == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
384 amtime_now = 1;
385 else
386 time (&newtime);
389 if (optind == argc)
391 error (0, 0, _("file arguments missing"));
392 usage (1);
395 for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
396 err += touch (argv[optind]);
398 exit (err != 0);