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1 /* touch -- change modification and access times of files
2 Copyright (C) 1987-2013 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 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) 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, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
18 and Randy Smith. */
20 #include <config.h>
21 #include <stdio.h>
22 #include <getopt.h>
23 #include <sys/types.h>
24 #include <assert.h>
26 #include "system.h"
27 #include "argmatch.h"
28 #include "error.h"
29 #include "fd-reopen.h"
30 #include "parse-datetime.h"
31 #include "posixtm.h"
32 #include "posixver.h"
33 #include "quote.h"
34 #include "stat-time.h"
35 #include "utimens.h"
37 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
38 #define PROGRAM_NAME "touch"
40 #define AUTHORS \
41 proper_name ("Paul Rubin"), \
42 proper_name ("Arnold Robbins"), \
43 proper_name ("Jim Kingdon"), \
44 proper_name ("David MacKenzie"), \
45 proper_name ("Randy Smith")
47 /* Bitmasks for 'change_times'. */
48 #define CH_ATIME 1
49 #define CH_MTIME 2
51 /* Which timestamps to change. */
52 static int change_times;
54 /* (-c) If true, don't create if not already there. */
55 static bool no_create;
57 /* (-r) If true, use times from a reference file. */
58 static bool use_ref;
60 /* (-h) If true, change the times of an existing symlink, if possible. */
61 static bool no_dereference;
63 /* If true, the only thing we have to do is change both the
64 modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
65 have to own the file, just be able to read and write it.
66 On some systems, we can do this if we own the file, even though
67 we have neither read nor write access to it. */
68 static bool amtime_now;
70 /* New access and modification times to use when setting time. */
71 static struct timespec newtime[2];
73 /* File to use for -r. */
74 static char *ref_file;
76 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
77 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
78 enum
80 TIME_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
83 static struct option const longopts[] =
85 {"time", required_argument, NULL, TIME_OPTION},
86 {"no-create", no_argument, NULL, 'c'},
87 {"date", required_argument, NULL, 'd'},
88 {"reference", required_argument, NULL, 'r'},
89 {"no-dereference", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
90 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
91 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
92 {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
95 /* Valid arguments to the '--time' option. */
96 static char const* const time_args[] =
98 "atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", NULL
101 /* The bits in 'change_times' that those arguments set. */
102 static int const time_masks[] =
104 CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_MTIME, CH_MTIME
107 /* Store into *RESULT the result of interpreting FLEX_DATE as a date,
108 relative to NOW. If NOW is null, use the current time. */
110 static void
111 get_reldate (struct timespec *result,
112 char const *flex_date, struct timespec const *now)
114 if (! parse_datetime (result, flex_date, now))
115 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date format %s"), quote (flex_date));
118 /* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
119 Return true if successful. */
121 static bool
122 touch (const char *file)
124 bool ok;
125 int fd = -1;
126 int open_errno = 0;
127 struct timespec const *t = newtime;
129 if (STREQ (file, "-"))
130 fd = STDOUT_FILENO;
131 else if (! (no_create || no_dereference))
133 /* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
134 fd = fd_reopen (STDIN_FILENO, file,
135 O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY, MODE_RW_UGO);
137 /* Don't save a copy of errno if it's EISDIR, since that would lead
138 touch to give a bogus diagnostic for e.g., 'touch /' (assuming
139 we don't own / or have write access to it). On Solaris 5.6,
140 and probably other systems, it is EINVAL. On SunOS4, it's EPERM. */
141 if (fd == -1 && errno != EISDIR && errno != EINVAL && errno != EPERM)
142 open_errno = errno;
145 if (change_times != (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
147 /* We're setting only one of the time values. */
148 if (change_times == CH_MTIME)
149 newtime[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
150 else
152 assert (change_times == CH_ATIME);
153 newtime[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
157 if (amtime_now)
159 /* Pass NULL to futimens so it will not fail if we have
160 write access to the file, but don't own it. */
161 t = NULL;
164 ok = (fdutimensat (fd, AT_FDCWD, (fd == STDOUT_FILENO ? NULL : file), t,
165 (no_dereference && fd == -1) ? AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW : 0)
166 == 0);
168 if (fd == STDIN_FILENO)
170 if (close (STDIN_FILENO) != 0)
172 error (0, errno, _("failed to close %s"), quote (file));
173 return false;
176 else if (fd == STDOUT_FILENO)
178 /* Do not diagnose "touch -c - >&-". */
179 if (!ok && errno == EBADF && no_create)
180 return true;
183 if (!ok)
185 if (open_errno)
187 /* The wording of this diagnostic should cover at least two cases:
188 - the file does not exist, but the parent directory is unwritable
189 - the file exists, but it isn't writable
190 I think it's not worth trying to distinguish them. */
191 error (0, open_errno, _("cannot touch %s"), quote (file));
193 else
195 if (no_create && errno == ENOENT)
196 return true;
197 error (0, errno, _("setting times of %s"), quote (file));
199 return false;
202 return true;
205 void
206 usage (int status)
208 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
209 emit_try_help ();
210 else
212 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
213 fputs (_("\
214 Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
216 A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h\n\
217 is supplied.\n\
219 A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to\n\
220 change the times of the file associated with standard output.\n\
221 "), stdout);
223 emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
225 fputs (_("\
226 -a change only the access time\n\
227 -c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
228 -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
229 -f (ignored)\n\
230 "), stdout);
231 fputs (_("\
232 -h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced\n\
233 file (useful only on systems that can change the\n\
234 timestamps of a symlink)\n\
235 -m change only the modification time\n\
236 "), stdout);
237 fputs (_("\
238 -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
239 -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
240 --time=WORD change the specified time:\n\
241 WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a\n\
242 WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m\n\
243 "), stdout);
244 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
245 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
246 fputs (_("\
248 Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.\n\
249 "), stdout);
250 emit_ancillary_info ();
252 exit (status);
256 main (int argc, char **argv)
258 int c;
259 bool date_set = false;
260 bool ok = true;
261 char const *flex_date = NULL;
263 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
264 set_program_name (argv[0]);
265 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
266 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
267 textdomain (PACKAGE);
269 atexit (close_stdout);
271 change_times = 0;
272 no_create = use_ref = false;
274 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fhmr:t:", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
276 switch (c)
278 case 'a':
279 change_times |= CH_ATIME;
280 break;
282 case 'c':
283 no_create = true;
284 break;
286 case 'd':
287 flex_date = optarg;
288 break;
290 case 'f':
291 break;
293 case 'h':
294 no_dereference = true;
295 break;
297 case 'm':
298 change_times |= CH_MTIME;
299 break;
301 case 'r':
302 use_ref = true;
303 ref_file = optarg;
304 break;
306 case 't':
307 if (! posixtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec, optarg,
308 PDS_LEADING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS))
309 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date format %s"),
310 quote (optarg));
311 newtime[0].tv_nsec = 0;
312 newtime[1] = newtime[0];
313 date_set = true;
314 break;
316 case TIME_OPTION: /* --time */
317 change_times |= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg,
318 time_args, time_masks);
319 break;
321 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
323 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
325 default:
326 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
330 if (change_times == 0)
331 change_times = CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME;
333 if (date_set && (use_ref || flex_date))
335 error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
336 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
339 if (use_ref)
341 struct stat ref_stats;
342 /* Don't use (no_dereference?lstat:stat) (args), since stat
343 might be an object-like macro. */
344 if (no_dereference ? lstat (ref_file, &ref_stats)
345 : stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
346 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
347 _("failed to get attributes of %s"), quote (ref_file));
348 newtime[0] = get_stat_atime (&ref_stats);
349 newtime[1] = get_stat_mtime (&ref_stats);
350 date_set = true;
351 if (flex_date)
353 if (change_times & CH_ATIME)
354 get_reldate (&newtime[0], flex_date, &newtime[0]);
355 if (change_times & CH_MTIME)
356 get_reldate (&newtime[1], flex_date, &newtime[1]);
359 else
361 if (flex_date)
363 struct timespec now;
364 gettime (&now);
365 get_reldate (&newtime[0], flex_date, &now);
366 newtime[1] = newtime[0];
367 date_set = true;
369 /* If neither -a nor -m is specified, treat "-d now" as if
370 it were absent; this lets "touch" succeed more often in
371 the presence of restrictive permissions. */
372 if (change_times == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME)
373 && newtime[0].tv_sec == now.tv_sec
374 && newtime[0].tv_nsec == now.tv_nsec)
376 /* Check that it really was "-d now", and not a time
377 stamp that just happens to be the current time. */
378 struct timespec notnow, notnow1;
379 notnow.tv_sec = now.tv_sec ^ 1;
380 notnow.tv_nsec = now.tv_nsec;
381 get_reldate (&notnow1, flex_date, &notnow);
382 if (notnow1.tv_sec == notnow.tv_sec
383 && notnow1.tv_nsec == notnow.tv_nsec)
384 date_set = false;
389 /* The obsolete 'MMDDhhmm[YY]' form is valid IFF there are
390 two or more non-option arguments. */
391 if (!date_set && 2 <= argc - optind && posix2_version () < 200112
392 && posixtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec, argv[optind],
393 PDS_TRAILING_YEAR | PDS_PRE_2000))
395 newtime[0].tv_nsec = 0;
396 newtime[1] = newtime[0];
397 date_set = true;
399 if (! getenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT"))
401 struct tm const *tm = localtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec);
403 /* Technically, it appears that even a deliberate attempt to cause
404 the above localtime to return NULL will always fail because our
405 posixtime implementation rejects all dates for which localtime
406 would fail. However, skip the warning if it ever fails. */
407 if (tm)
408 error (0, 0,
409 _("warning: 'touch %s' is obsolete; use "
410 "'touch -t %04ld%02d%02d%02d%02d.%02d'"),
411 argv[optind],
412 tm->tm_year + 1900L, tm->tm_mon + 1, tm->tm_mday,
413 tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min, tm->tm_sec);
416 optind++;
419 if (!date_set)
421 if (change_times == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
422 amtime_now = true;
423 else
424 newtime[1].tv_nsec = newtime[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
427 if (optind == argc)
429 error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
430 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
433 for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
434 ok &= touch (argv[optind]);
436 exit (ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE);