NAME
lutimes —
set file access and modification times
of symlink
SYNOPSIS
#include
<sys/time.h>
int
lutimes(const
char *path, struct
timeval times[2]);
DESCRIPTION
The access and modification times of the file named by path are changed as specified by the argument times, even if path specifies a symbolic link (for utimes(2) the times of the file referenced by the symbolic link are changed).
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
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.
NOTE
Instead of being a system call,
lutimes()
is emulated using
setattrlist(2). Not all file systems support
setattrlist(2).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The lutimes() call may return the same
errors as utimes(2) and
setattrlist(2).