From 7ad11a31df62bb66ee33bf05025730ebfdf8396b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:35:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] touch(): behavioral change, call utimensat() first, then
 mknod()

Optimize for the case the file exists already.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
---
 src/lite.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lite.h b/src/lite.h
index 13cb5cc..b64e596 100644
--- a/src/lite.h
+++ b/src/lite.h
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ int     whichp     (const char *cmd);
 #include <sys/time.h>		/* utimensat() on *BSD */
 static inline int touch(const char *path)
 {
-	if (mknod((path), S_IFREG|0644, 0)) {
-		if (errno == EEXIST)
-			return utimensat(AT_FDCWD, path, NULL, 0);
+	if (utimensat(AT_FDCWD, path, NULL, 0)) {
+		if (errno == ENOENT)
+			return mknod((path), S_IFREG|0644, 0);
 		return -1;
 	}
 	return 0;