Re: dired-do-touch

[Lars Hansen]

> I wonder: wouldn't it be better to have an Emacs primitive to do
> this, instead of invoking an external program?  For starters, it will
> then work on any platform, including those where `touch' is not a
> standard part of the OS.
A week ago, in the thread "Re: Set modtime of a local file?", I 
suggested to make the existing function set_file_times (in sysdep.c) 
into a lisp primitive because such a primitive is needed in Tramp. This 
primitive could be used by dired-do-touch to obtain independence of 
external programs.