Manual page for UTIMES(2)
utimes - set file times
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
int utimes(file, tvp)
char *file;
struct timeval *tvp;
DESCRIPTION
utimes()
sets the access and modification times of the file named by
file.
If
tvp
is
NULL,
the access and modification times are set to the current time. A
process must be the owner of the file or have write permission for
the file to use
utimes()
in this manner.
If
tvp
is not
NULL,
it is assumed to point to an array of two
timeval
structures. The access time is set to the value of the first member,
and the modification time is set to the value of the second member.
Only the owner of the file or the super-user may use
utimes()
in this manner.
In either case, the
inode-changed
time of the file is set to the current time.
RETURN VALUES
utimes()
returns:
- 0
-
on success.
- -1
-
on failure and sets
errno
to indicate the error.
ERRORS
- EACCES
-
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix of
file.
- EACCES
-
The effective user
ID
of the process is not super-user and not the owner of the file, write
permission is denied for the file, and
tvp
is
NULL.
- EFAULT
-
file
or
tvp
points outside the process's allocated address space.
- EIO
-
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
- ELOOP
-
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating
file.
- ENOENT
-
The file referred to by
file
does not exist.
- ENOTDIR
-
A component of the path prefix of
file
is not a directory.
- EPERM
-
The effective user
ID
of the process is not super-user and not the owner of the file, and
tvp
is not
NULL.
- EROFS
-
The file system containing the file is mounted read-only.
SEE ALSO
stat.2v
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