02-28-2008
That is the expected behavour for utime()
The utime() function sets the access and modification times of path to the values in the
utimbuf structure. If times is a NULL pointer, the access and modification times are set
to the current time. If the named file is a symbolic link, utime() resolves the symbolic link.
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UTIME(2) System Calls Manual UTIME(2)
NAME
utime - set file times
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <utime.h>
int utime(const char *file, struct utimbuf *times)
DESCRIPTION
The utime call uses the "accessed" and "updated" times from the utimbuf structure pointed to by times to set the corresponding recorded
times for file.
Struct utimbuf is defined in <utime.h> as follows:
struct utimbuf {
time_t actime; /* access time */
time_t modtime; /* modification time */
};
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] The path name exceeds PATH_MAX characters.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. (Minix-vmd)
[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 times 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).
4th Berkeley Distribution August 26, 1985 UTIME(2)