From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T04:13:13+09:00
Subject: Re: FileUtils.touch not consistent with system('touch')

Hi,

  In mail "Re: FileUtils.touch not consistent with system('touch')"
  "Nobuyoshi Nakada" <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> > The reason is that File.utime cannot be called with a NULL argument.
> > Linux (and I assume this is Posix) allows a utime call with NULL if
> > the file is writeable,
> > but to change the time a process must have special privileges.
> > With the current File.utime FileUtils cannot implement this.
> 
> What about this?

> Index: lib/fileutils.rb

This part seems nice, please commit it after File.utime
patch is committed.

Best Regards,
Minero Aoki