php的touch,PHP: touch - Manual

If you're going to go around deleting (unlinking) files

that you don't own just in order to change the modification

time on the file, you darn well better chown() the file

back to it's original ownership after you are done and

chmod() it back to it's correct permissions.  Otherwise

you will almost certainly break things.  Additionally the

code listed for touch()ing a file you don't own should

set the file creation time back to it's original time if

what is wanted is to just change the modification time.

Also, the code listed will break things if there is an i/o

error such as disk full or too many files in the directory.

Here's how the code SHOULD be written:

Create the new file FIRST, rather than last, with a different

name such as $file.tmp.

Read the ownership, permissions, and creation time of the old file.

Set permissions and creation time of the new file the same as the old.

Rename the new file to the name of the old.

chown() the new file to the user that owned the file it's replacing.

Please be careful adding to the documentation if you've

never taken programming 101.