opendarwin man page for utimes

UTIMES(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual							 UTIMES(2)

NAME
     utimes, 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
     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 current 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 ele-
     ment, and the modification time is set to the value of the second element.  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.

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
     utimes() 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]		path or times 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 translating the pathname.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	A component of a pathname exceeded NAME_MAX characters, or an entire path name exceeded PATH_MAX characters.

     [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.

     futimes() will fail if:

     [EBADF]		fd does not refer to a valid descriptor.

     All of the functions 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]		times points outside the process's allocated address space.

     [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() function call appeared in 4.2BSD.  The futimes() function call first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.

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								   June 4, 1993 							       BSD