redhat man page for utime

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, ENO-
       LINK, ENOTDIR, EPERM, EROFS.
       utimes: BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO
       stat(2)

Linux								    1995-06-10								  UTIME(2)