Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 00:37:30 EST


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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> With the introduction of the nanosecond fields in struct stat the
> utime() syscall is kind of obsolete. It's not possible anymore to
> restore the exact access/modification time of a file.

Replying to myself: utimes() is already available, on some
architectures. The question is why not for archs != alpha, ia64, PA, SPARC?

And of course the question of futimes/lutimes remains.

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