/* touch -- change modification and access times of files
Copyright (C) 1987-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see . */
/* Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie,
and Randy Smith. */
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "system.h"
#include "argmatch.h"
#include "assure.h"
#include "fd-reopen.h"
#include "parse-datetime.h"
#include "posixtm.h"
#include "posixver.h"
#include "quote.h"
#include "stat-time.h"
#include "utimens.h"
/* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
#define PROGRAM_NAME "touch"
#define AUTHORS \
proper_name ("Paul Rubin"), \
proper_name ("Arnold Robbins"), \
proper_name ("Jim Kingdon"), \
proper_name ("David MacKenzie"), \
proper_name ("Randy Smith")
/* Bitmasks for 'change_times'. */
#define CH_ATIME 1
#define CH_MTIME 2
/* Which timestamps to change. */
static int change_times;
/* (-c) If true, don't create if not already there. */
static bool no_create;
/* (-r) If true, use times from a reference file. */
static bool use_ref;
/* (-h) If true, change the times of an existing symlink, if possible. */
static bool no_dereference;
/* If true, the only thing we have to do is change both the
modification and access time to the current time, so we don't
have to own the file, just be able to read and write it.
On some systems, we can do this if we own the file, even though
we have neither read nor write access to it. */
static bool amtime_now;
/* New access and modification times to use when setting time. */
static struct timespec newtime[2];
/* File to use for -r. */
static char *ref_file;
/* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
enum
{
TIME_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
};
static struct option const longopts[] =
{
{"time", required_argument, nullptr, TIME_OPTION},
{"no-create", no_argument, nullptr, 'c'},
{"date", required_argument, nullptr, 'd'},
{"reference", required_argument, nullptr, 'r'},
{"no-dereference", no_argument, nullptr, 'h'},
{GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
{GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
{nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0}
};
/* Valid arguments to the '--time' option. */
static char const *const time_args[] =
{
"atime", "access", "use", "mtime", "modify", nullptr
};
/* The bits in 'change_times' that those arguments set. */
static int const time_masks[] =
{
CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_ATIME, CH_MTIME, CH_MTIME
};
/* The interpretation of FLEX_DATE as a date, relative to NOW. */
static struct timespec
date_relative (char const *flex_date, struct timespec now)
{
struct timespec result;
if (! parse_datetime (&result, flex_date, &now))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date format %s"), quote (flex_date));
return result;
}
/* Update the time of file FILE according to the options given.
Return true if successful. */
static bool
touch (char const *file)
{
int fd = -1;
int open_errno = 0;
struct timespec const *t = newtime;
if (STREQ (file, "-"))
fd = STDOUT_FILENO;
else if (! (no_create || no_dereference))
{
/* Try to open FILE, creating it if necessary. */
fd = fd_reopen (STDIN_FILENO, file,
O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_NONBLOCK | O_NOCTTY, MODE_RW_UGO);
if (fd < 0)
open_errno = errno;
}
if (change_times != (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
{
/* We're setting only one of the time values. */
if (change_times == CH_MTIME)
newtime[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
else
{
affirm (change_times == CH_ATIME);
newtime[1].tv_nsec = UTIME_OMIT;
}
}
if (amtime_now)
{
/* Pass nullptr to futimens so it will not fail if we have
write access to the file, but don't own it. */
t = nullptr;
}
char const *file_opt = fd == STDOUT_FILENO ? nullptr : file;
int atflag = no_dereference ? AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW : 0;
int utime_errno = (fdutimensat (fd, AT_FDCWD, file_opt, t, atflag) == 0
? 0 : errno);
if (fd == STDIN_FILENO)
{
if (close (STDIN_FILENO) != 0)
{
error (0, errno, _("failed to close %s"), quoteaf (file));
return false;
}
}
else if (fd == STDOUT_FILENO)
{
/* Do not diagnose "touch -c - >&-". */
if (utime_errno == EBADF && no_create)
return true;
}
if (utime_errno != 0)
{
/* Don't diagnose with open_errno if FILE is a directory, as that
would give a bogus diagnostic for e.g., 'touch /' (assuming we
don't own / or have write access). On Solaris 10 and probably
other systems, opening a directory like "." fails with EINVAL.
(On SunOS 4 it was EPERM but that's obsolete.) */
struct stat st;
if (open_errno
&& ! (open_errno == EISDIR
|| (open_errno == EINVAL
&& stat (file, &st) == 0 && S_ISDIR (st.st_mode))))
{
/* The wording of this diagnostic should cover at least two cases:
- the file does not exist, but the parent directory is unwritable
- the file exists, but it isn't writable
I think it's not worth trying to distinguish them. */
error (0, open_errno, _("cannot touch %s"), quoteaf (file));
}
else
{
if (no_create && utime_errno == ENOENT)
return true;
error (0, utime_errno, _("setting times of %s"), quoteaf (file));
}
return false;
}
return true;
}
void
usage (int status)
{
if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
emit_try_help ();
else
{
printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... FILE...\n"), program_name);
fputs (_("\
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time.\n\
\n\
A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h\n\
is supplied.\n\
\n\
A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to\n\
change the times of the file associated with standard output.\n\
"), stdout);
emit_mandatory_arg_note ();
fputs (_("\
-a change only the access time\n\
-c, --no-create do not create any files\n\
-d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time\n\
-f (ignored)\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced\n\
file (useful only on systems that can change the\n\
timestamps of a symlink)\n\
-m change only the modification time\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (_("\
-r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time\n\
-t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time\n\
--time=WORD change the specified time:\n\
WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a\n\
WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m\n\
"), stdout);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (_("\
\n\
Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats.\n\
"), stdout);
emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME);
}
exit (status);
}
int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int c;
bool date_set = false;
bool ok = true;
char const *flex_date = nullptr;
initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
set_program_name (argv[0]);
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
textdomain (PACKAGE);
atexit (close_stdout);
change_times = 0;
no_create = use_ref = false;
while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "acd:fhmr:t:", longopts, nullptr)) != -1)
{
switch (c)
{
case 'a':
change_times |= CH_ATIME;
break;
case 'c':
no_create = true;
break;
case 'd':
flex_date = optarg;
break;
case 'f':
break;
case 'h':
no_dereference = true;
break;
case 'm':
change_times |= CH_MTIME;
break;
case 'r':
use_ref = true;
ref_file = optarg;
break;
case 't':
if (! posixtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec, optarg,
PDS_LEADING_YEAR | PDS_CENTURY | PDS_SECONDS))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("invalid date format %s"),
quote (optarg));
newtime[0].tv_nsec = 0;
newtime[1] = newtime[0];
date_set = true;
break;
case TIME_OPTION: /* --time */
change_times |= XARGMATCH ("--time", optarg,
time_args, time_masks);
break;
case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
default:
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
}
if (change_times == 0)
change_times = CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME;
if (date_set && (use_ref || flex_date))
{
error (0, 0, _("cannot specify times from more than one source"));
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if (use_ref)
{
struct stat ref_stats;
/* Don't use (no_dereference?lstat:stat) (args), since stat
might be an object-like macro. */
if (no_dereference ? lstat (ref_file, &ref_stats)
: stat (ref_file, &ref_stats))
error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
_("failed to get attributes of %s"), quoteaf (ref_file));
newtime[0] = get_stat_atime (&ref_stats);
newtime[1] = get_stat_mtime (&ref_stats);
date_set = true;
if (flex_date)
{
if (change_times & CH_ATIME)
newtime[0] = date_relative (flex_date, newtime[0]);
if (change_times & CH_MTIME)
newtime[1] = date_relative (flex_date, newtime[1]);
}
}
else
{
if (flex_date)
{
struct timespec now = current_timespec ();
newtime[1] = newtime[0] = date_relative (flex_date, now);
date_set = true;
/* If neither -a nor -m is specified, treat "-d now" as if
it were absent; this lets "touch" succeed more often in
the presence of restrictive permissions. */
if (change_times == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME)
&& newtime[0].tv_sec == now.tv_sec
&& newtime[0].tv_nsec == now.tv_nsec)
{
/* Check that it really was "-d now", and not a timestamp
that just happens to be the current time. */
struct timespec notnow, notnow1;
notnow.tv_sec = now.tv_sec ^ 1;
notnow.tv_nsec = now.tv_nsec;
notnow1 = date_relative (flex_date, notnow);
if (notnow1.tv_sec == notnow.tv_sec
&& notnow1.tv_nsec == notnow.tv_nsec)
date_set = false;
}
}
}
/* The obsolete 'MMDDhhmm[YY]' form is valid IFF there are
two or more non-option arguments. */
if (!date_set && 2 <= argc - optind && posix2_version () < 200112
&& posixtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec, argv[optind],
PDS_TRAILING_YEAR | PDS_PRE_2000))
{
newtime[0].tv_nsec = 0;
newtime[1] = newtime[0];
date_set = true;
if (! getenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT"))
{
struct tm const *tm = localtime (&newtime[0].tv_sec);
/* Technically, it appears that even a deliberate attempt to cause
the above localtime to return nullptr will always fail because our
posixtime implementation rejects all dates for which localtime
would fail. However, skip the warning if it ever fails. */
if (tm)
error (0, 0,
_("warning: 'touch %s' is obsolete; use "
"'touch -t %04ld%02d%02d%02d%02d.%02d'"),
argv[optind],
tm->tm_year + 1900L, tm->tm_mon + 1, tm->tm_mday,
tm->tm_hour, tm->tm_min, tm->tm_sec);
}
optind++;
}
if (!date_set)
{
if (change_times == (CH_ATIME | CH_MTIME))
amtime_now = true;
else
newtime[1].tv_nsec = newtime[0].tv_nsec = UTIME_NOW;
}
if (optind == argc)
{
error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}
for (; optind < argc; ++optind)
ok &= touch (argv[optind]);
return ok ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
}