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>
>
>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.