bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Jim Meyering's message of Sun Mar 13 05:11:33 -0400 2011:

Hi Jim,

> I've just updated coreutils to use the latest from gnulib, so this
> will be fixed in coreutils-8.11.

Great!

> Ben, can you confirm that touch from coreutils-8.7 did not have this
> problem?  I'll wait for confirmation before pushing.

I just built 8.7 (I skipped from 8.4 -> 8.8) with my build script and
tested it.  It works correctly, so I'd say that yes, the problem was
introduced in 8.8.  This was on sparc, I didn't make the verification
on i386, but I will if you'd like.

Thanks
-Ben
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