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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The function sets the access and modification times of the named file. If is 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 is 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 super-user. In either case, the inode-change-time of the file is set to the current time.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

will fail if: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix; or the argument is 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. or points outside the process’s allocated address space. An I/O error occurred while reading or writing the affected inode. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. A component of a pathname exceeded characters, or an entire path name exceeded characters. The named file does not exist. A component of the path prefix is not a directory. The argument is not and the calling process’s effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and is not the super-user. The file system containing the file is mounted read-only.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

The function call appeared in


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