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UTIME(2)            Linux Programmer's Manual            UTIME(2)

NAME
       utime, utimes - change access and/or modification times of
       an inode

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <utime.h>

       int utime(const char *filename, struct utimbuf *buf);

       #include <sys/time.h>

       int utimes(char *filename, struct timeval *tvp);

DESCRIPTION
       utime changes the access and  modification  times  of  the
       inode  specified  by  filename  to  the actime and modtime
       fields of buf respectively.  If  buf  is  NULL,  then  the
       access  and  modification times of the file are set to the
       current time.  The utimbuf structure is:

              struct utimbuf {
                      time_t actime;  /* access time */
                      time_t modtime; /* modification time */
              };

       In the Linux DLL 4.4.1 libraries, utimes is just a wrapper
       for  utime:  tvp[0].tv_sec is actime, and tvp[1].tv_sec is
       modtime.  The timeval structure is:

              struct timeval {
                      long    tv_sec;         /* seconds */
                      long    tv_usec;        /* microseconds */
              };

RETURN VALUE
       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1  is  returned,
       and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       Other errors may occur.

       EACCES  Permission to write the file is denied.

       ENOENT  filename does not exist.

CONFORMING TO
       utime: SVr4, SVID, POSIX.  SVr4 documents additional error
       conditions EFAULT, EINTR, ELOOP, EMULTIHOP,  ENAMETOOLONG,
       ENOLINK, ENOTDIR, ENOLINK, ENOTDIR, EPERM, EROFS.
       utimes: BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO
       stat(2)

Linux                      10 June 1995                         1

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