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-.TH UTIME 2 2008-08-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UTIME 2 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
utime, utimes \- change file last access and modification times
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "int utimes(const char *" filename ", const struct timeval " times [2]);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B Note:
+modern applications may prefer to use the interfaces described in
+.BR utimensat (2).
+
The
.BR utime ()
system call
.BR utime (),
the access and modification times of the file are
set to the current time.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, zero is returned.
On error, \-1 is returned, and
.I errno
.TP
.B EROFS
.I path
-resides on a read-only file system.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+resides on a read-only filesystem.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
.BR utime ():
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
POSIX.1-2008 marks
Linux does not allow changing the timestamps on an immutable file,
or setting the timestamps to something other than the current time
on an append-only file.
-
-In libc4 and libc5,
-.BR utimes ()
-is just a wrapper for
-.BR utime ()
-and hence does not allow a subsecond resolution.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.\"
+.\" In libc4 and libc5,
+.\" .BR utimes ()
+.\" is just a wrapper for
+.\" .BR utime ()
+.\" and hence does not allow a subsecond resolution.
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR chattr (1),
.BR futimesat (2),
.BR stat (2),
.BR utimensat (2),
.BR futimens (3),
.BR futimes (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.