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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/utimes.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/utimes.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b58032c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/utimes.2 @@ -0,0 +1,329 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: utimes.2,v 1.28 2020/09/30 16:27:16 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: utimes.2,v 1.9 1996/04/23 10:34:16 mycroft Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)utimes.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 30 2020 $ +.Dt UTIMES 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm utimes , +.Nm futimes , +.Nm utimensat , +.Nm futimens +.Nd set file access and modification times +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In sys/time.h +.Ft int +.Fn utimes "const char *path" "const struct timeval times[2]" +.Ft int +.Fn futimes "int fd" "const struct timeval times[2]" +.In sys/stat.h +.In fcntl.h +.Ft int +.Fn utimensat "int fd" "const char *path" "const struct timespec times[2]" "int flag" +.Ft int +.Fn futimens "int fd" "const struct timespec times[2]" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The access and modification times of the file named by +.Fa path +or referenced by +.Fa fd +are changed as specified by the argument +.Fa times . +.Pp +If +.Fa times +is +.Dv 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 superuser. +.Pp +If +.Fa 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. +The caller must be the owner of the file or be the superuser. +.Pp +In either case, the file status change time is set to the current time. +.Pp +The +.Fn utimensat +and +.Fn futimens +are equivalent to +.Fn utimes +and +.Fn futimes , +respectively, with the following differences. +.Pp +Both +.Fn utimensat +and +.Fn futimens +take two timespec values instead of two timeval values. +Further, either of the +.Fa tv_nsec +fields can be set to one of the following special values defined in +.In sys/stat.h , +in which case the value of +.Fa tv_sec +is ignored: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width UTIME_OMIT -offset indent -compact +.It Dv UTIME_NOW +Set the respective timestamp to the greatest value supported +that is not greater than the current time. +.It Dv UTIME_OMIT +Do not change the respective timestamp. +.El +.Pp +Additionally, if the +.Fa path +argument to +.Fn utimensat +specifies a relative path, +the file whose timestamps are changed is determined relative to +the directory associated with file descriptor +.Fa fd +instead of the current working directory. +.Pp +If +.Fn utimensat +is passed the special value +.Dv AT_FDCWD +(defined in +.In fcntl.h ) +in the +.Fa fd +parameter, the current working directory is used. +.Pp +The +.Fa flag +argument is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following values: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW -offset indent -compact +.It Dv AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW +If +.Fa path +names a symbolic link, then the timestamps of the symbolic link are changed. +.El +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn utimes +and +.Fn utimensat +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix; +or the +.Fa times +argument is +.Dv NULL +and the effective user ID of the process does not +match the owner of the file, and is not the superuser, and write +access is denied. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa path +or +.Fa times +points outside the process's allocated address space. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the affected inode. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire pathname (including the terminating NUL) +exceeded +.Dv PATH_MAX +bytes. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The named file does not exist. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The +.Fa times +argument is not +.Dv NULL +and the calling process's effective user ID +does not match the owner of the file and is not the superuser. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The file system containing the file is mounted read-only. +.El +.Pp +Additionally, +.Fn utimensat +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The value of the +.Fa flag +argument was neither zero nor +.Dv AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW . +.It Bq Er EBADF +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path and the +.Fa fd +argument is neither +.Dv AT_FDCWD +nor a valid file descriptor. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path and the +.Fa fd +argument is a valid file descriptor but it does not reference a directory. +.It Bq Er EACCES +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path but search permission is denied +for the directory which the +.Fa fd +file descriptor references. +.El +.Pp +.Fn futimes +and +.Fn futimens +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +.Fa fd +does not refer to a valid descriptor. +.It Bq Er EACCES +The +.Fa times +argument is +.Dv NULL +and the effective user ID of the process does not +match the owner of the file, and is not the superuser, and write +access is denied. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa times +points outside the process's allocated address space. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the affected inode. +.It Bq Er EPERM +The +.Fa times +argument is not +.Dv NULL +and the calling process's effective user ID +does not match the owner of the file and is not the superuser. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The file system containing the file is mounted read-only. +.El +.Pp +.Fn utimes +and +.Fn futimes +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +Either of the +.Fa times +arguments specified a microsecond value less than zero or greater +than or equal to 1 million, or a second value less than zero. +.El +.Pp +.Fn utimesat +and +.Fn futimens +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +Either of the +.Fa times +argument specified a nanosecond value less than zero or greater +than or equal to 1000 million, or a second value less than zero. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr clock_gettime 2 , +.Xr stat 2 , +.Xr utime 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn utimes , +.Fn utimensat , +and +.Fn futimens +functions conform to +.St -p1003.1-2008 . +.Sh HISTORY +The predecessors of +.Fn utimes +were +.Fn smdate +in +.At v1 , +.Fn mdate +in +.At v3 , +and +.Fn utime +in +.At v7 ; +the latter first supported the concept of an access time +in addition to the modification time. +.Pp +The +.Fn utimes +function call appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . +The +.Fn futimes +function call appeared in +.Nx 1.2 . +The +.Fn utimensat +and +.Fn futimens +function calls appeared in +.Ox 5.0 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Some filesystems, such as FAT, use the same timestamp for both +modification and file status change; +on those filesystems, the file status change timestamp will not be +updated if +.Dv UTIME_OMIT +is specified for the modification timestamp argument. +Similarly, on NFS the file status change timestamp will not be +updated if +.Dv UTIME_OMIT +is specified for both the access and the modification timestamp arguments. |
