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diff --git a/man/man2/futimesat.2 b/man/man2/futimesat.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a0c3cd --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/futimesat.2 @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 2006, Michael Kerrisk +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH futimesat 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +futimesat \- change timestamps of a file relative to a \ +directory file descriptor +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <fcntl.h>" " /* Definition of " AT_* " constants */" +.B #include <sys/time.h> +.P +.BI "[[deprecated]] int futimesat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname , +.BI " const struct timeval " times [2]); +.fi +.P +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.P +.BR futimesat (): +.nf + _GNU_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +This system call is obsolete. +Use +.BR utimensat (2) +instead. +.P +The +.BR futimesat () +system call operates in exactly the same way as +.BR utimes (2), +except for the differences described in this manual page. +.P +If the pathname given in +.I pathname +is relative, then it is interpreted relative to the directory +referred to by the file descriptor +.I dirfd +(rather than relative to the current working directory of +the calling process, as is done by +.BR utimes (2) +for a relative pathname). +.P +If +.I pathname +is relative and +.I dirfd +is the special value +.BR AT_FDCWD , +then +.I pathname +is interpreted relative to the current working +directory of the calling process (like +.BR utimes (2)). +.P +If +.I pathname +is absolute, then +.I dirfd +is ignored. +(See +.BR openat (2) +for an explanation of why the +.I dirfd +argument is useful.) +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, +.BR futimesat () +returns a 0. +On error, \-1 is returned and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +The same errors that occur for +.BR utimes (2) +can also occur for +.BR futimesat (). +The following additional errors can occur for +.BR futimesat (): +.TP +.B EBADF +.I pathname +is relative but +.I dirfd +is neither +.B AT_FDCWD +nor a valid file descriptor. +.TP +.B ENOTDIR +.I pathname +is relative and +.I dirfd +is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory. +.SH VERSIONS +.SS glibc +If +.I pathname +is NULL, then the glibc +.BR futimesat () +wrapper function updates the times for the file referred to by +.IR dirfd . +.\" The Solaris futimesat() also has this strangeness. +.SH STANDARDS +None. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.6.16, +glibc 2.4. +.P +It was implemented from a specification that was proposed for POSIX.1, +but that specification was replaced by the one for +.BR utimensat (2). +.P +A similar system call exists on Solaris. +.SH NOTES +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR stat (2), +.BR utimensat (2), +.BR utimes (2), +.BR futimes (3), +.BR path_resolution (7) |