Manual page for UTIMES(2)
utimes - set file times
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
utimes(file, tvp)
char *file;
struct timeval tvp[2];
DESCRIPTION
The
utimes
call
uses the
``accessed'' and ``updated'' times in that order
from the
tvp
vector
to set the corresponding recorded times for
file.
The caller must be the owner of the file or the super-user.
The ``inode-changed'' time of the file is set to the current time.
RETURN VALUE
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
Utime
will fail if one or more of the following are true:
- [ENOTDIR]
-
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
- [EINVAL]
-
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
- [ENAMETOOLONG]
-
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
- [ENOENT]
-
The named file does not exist.
- [ELOOP]
-
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
- [EPERM]
-
The process is not super-user and not the owner of the file.
- [EACCES]
-
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
- [EROFS]
-
The file system containing the file is mounted read-only.
- [EFAULT]
-
File
or tvp points outside the process's allocated address space.
- [EIO]
-
An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the affected inode.
SEE ALSO
stat(2)
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