[TYPO3-core] RFC #11433: touch(): Utime failed in install tool

[Steffen Gebert]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:12:36 +0200, Martin Kutschker  
<masi-no at spam-typo3.org> wrote:

> And then, what? If a failed check doesn't lead to a report to the admin  
> you could have used @ with
> the same effect. The error goes away, but you have no idea that the  
> touch failed.

Didnt't we want to omit @s? Of course, this would lead to the same result  
and suppress the warning.

The result of not updating the utime is a locked install tool after one  
hour and the file is deleted (because only access rights of the  
typo3conf-directory count while deleting a file [1]).
Then the user is explained that it was older than one hour and deleted  
therefore.

Improvements of this message could add the KEEP_FILE "property" and they  
MUST include a hint to the button in "User settings".

If we have no write-access to the file, we can't to anything than delete  
it after one hour. So only failed prolongation of the validity period is  
now silently acquiesced (instead of shouting out error messages loud and  
also not being able to do anything).

Hope these explanations convince you, why I'm for just silently ignoring  
the missing rights.

Regards
Steffen