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UTIMES(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual UTIMES(2)
NAME
utimes, lutimes, futimes -- set file access and modification times
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/time.h>
int
utimes(const char *path, const struct timeval *times);
int
lutimes(const char *path, const struct timeval *times);
int
futimes(int fd, const struct timeval *times);
DESCRIPTION
The access and modification times of the file named by path or referenced
by fd are changed as specified by the argument times.
If times is NULL, the access and modification times are set to the cur-
rent time. The caller must be the owner of the file, have permission to
write the file, or be the super-user.
If 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. For
file systems that support file birth (creation) times (such as UFS2), the
birth time will be set to the value of the second element if the second
element is older than the currently set birth time. To set both a birth
time and a modification time, two calls are required; the first to set
the birth time and the second to set the (presumably newer) modification
time. Ideally a new system call will be added that allows the setting of
all three times at once. 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.
The lutimes() system call is like utimes() except in the case where the
named file is a symbolic link, in which case lutimes() changes the access
and modification times of the link, while utimes() changes the times of
the file the link references.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The utimes() and lutimes() system calls will fail if:
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the
path prefix; or the 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.
[EFAULT] The path or times argument points outside the
process's allocated address space.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the
affected inode.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat-
ing the pathname.
[ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded NAME_MAX charac-
ters, or an entire path name exceeded PATH_MAX charac-
ters.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
[EPERM] The 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.
[EROFS] The file system containing the file is mounted read-
only.
The futimes() system call will fail if:
[EBADF] The fd argument does not refer to a valid descriptor.
All of the system calls will fail if:
[EACCES] The 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.
[EFAULT] The times argument points outside the process's allo-
cated address space.
[EINVAL] The tv_usec component of at least one of the values
specified by the times argument has a value less than
0 or greater than 999999.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the
affected inode.
[EPERM] The 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.
[EROFS] The file system containing the file is mounted read-
only.
SEE ALSO
stat(2), utime(3)
HISTORY
The utimes() system call appeared in 4.2BSD. The futimes() and lutimes()
system calls first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.
FreeBSD 6.2 January 22, 2006 FreeBSD 6.2
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