touch: add a test for today's change.

* tests/touch/now-owned-by-other: New script.  Test today's change.
* tests/touch/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add now-owned-by-other.
* tests/Makefile.am (all_t): Add td, a new root-only test.
(td): New target.
* NEWS: Mention the improvement.

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+#!/bin/sh
+# Demonstrate that "touch -d now writable-but-owned-by-other" works.
+
+# Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  touch --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+PRIV_CHECK_ARG=require-root . $srcdir/../priv-check
+. $srcdir/../test-lib.sh
+
+group_num=$(id -g $NON_ROOT_USERNAME)
+
+# Create a file owned by root, and writable by $NON_ROOT_USERNAME.
+echo > root-owned || framework_failure
+chgrp +$group_num . root-owned || framework_failure
+chmod g+w root-owned
+
+# Ensure that the current directory is searchable by $NON_ROOT_USERNAME.
+chmod g+x .
+
+setuidgid $NON_ROOT_USERNAME env PATH="$PATH" touch -d now root-owned || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail