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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-02 14:12:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-06-02 14:12:37 +0000 |
| commit | 25fddfcd83e32bb8a768051a17ed088929913fab (patch) | |
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Note that this system is made obsolete by utimensat(2).
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diff --git a/man2/futimesat.2 b/man2/futimesat.2 index 8297fb0e3d..0df2cb3acf 100644 --- a/man2/futimesat.2 +++ b/man2/futimesat.2 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" .\" -.TH FUTIMESAT 2 2006-05-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH FUTIMESAT 2 2008-06-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME futimesat \- change timestamps of a file relative to a \ directory file descriptor @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ directory file descriptor .BI " const struct timeval " times [2]); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION +This system call is obsolete. +Use +.BR utimensat (2) +instead. + The .BR futimesat () system call operates in exactly the same way as @@ -97,8 +102,11 @@ is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory. .BR futimesat () was added to Linux in kernel 2.6.16. .SH "CONFORMING TO" -This system call is non-standard but is proposed -for inclusion in a future revision of POSIX.1. +This system call is non-standard. +It was implemented from a specification that was proposed POSIX.1, +but that specification was replaced by the one for +.BR utimensat(2). + A similar system call exists on Solaris. .SH NOTES .SS Glibc Notes @@ -111,6 +119,7 @@ wrapper function updates the times for the file referred to by .\" The Solaris futimesat() also has this strangeness. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR stat (2), +.BR utimensat (2), .BR utimes (2), .BR futimes (3), .BR path_resolution (7) |