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NAME
utimes
- set file access and modification times
SYNOPSIS
Fd #include <sys/time.h>
Ft int
Fn utimes const char *file const struct timeval *times
DESCRIPTION
The
Fn utimes
function sets the access and modification times of the named file.
If
Fa times
is
NULL
the access and modification times are set to the current time.
The caller must be the owner of the file, have permission to
write the file, or be the super-user.
If
Fa times
is
non- NULL ,
it is assumed to point to an array of two timeval structures.
The access time is set to the value of the first element, and the
modification time is set to the value of the second element.
The caller must be the owner of the file or be the super-user.
In either case, the inode-change-time of the file is set to the current
time.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Fn Utimes
will fail if:
- Bq Er EACCES
-
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix;
or the
Fa times
argument is
NULL
and the effective user ID of the process does not
match the owner of the file, and is not the super-user, and write
access is denied.
- Bq Er EFAULT
-
File
or
Fa times
points outside the process's allocated address space.
- Bq Er EIO
-
An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the affected inode.
- Bq Er ELOOP
-
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
-
A component of a pathname exceeded
{NAME_MAX}
characters, or an entire path name exceeded
{PATH_MAX}
characters.
- Bq Er ENOENT
-
The named file does not exist.
- Bq Er ENOTDIR
-
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- Bq Er EPERM
-
The
Fa times
argument is not
NULL
and the calling process's effective user ID
does not match the owner of the file and is not the super-user.
- Bq Er EROFS
-
The file system containing the file is mounted read-only.
SEE ALSO
stat(2),
utime(3)
HISTORY
The
Fn utimes
function call appeared in
BSD 4.2
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- RETURN VALUES
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- ERRORS
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- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
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