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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2010-04-28 02:35:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2010-04-28 02:35:24 +0200 |
| commit | 393b9c0ba3fe7302f7baea6c8c2f68839f916c2c (patch) | |
| tree | 3785ed69022144dda7fe2699e6ac22a2473c35f5 /doc | |
| parent | f726c6b3f26fb93c62724a07345e699557dc4f08 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-393b9c0ba3fe7302f7baea6c8c2f68839f916c2c.tar.gz | |
Update doc about utimes().
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi index cfd8fd315f..e6a196c1a8 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @item +The declaration of this function lacks @code{const} in the second argument +on some platforms: +OSF/1 5.1. +@item On some platforms, this function mis-handles trailing slash: FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9. @item @@ -32,3 +36,7 @@ On some platforms, @code{utimes} failed on read-only files when @code{utime} worked fine. glibc 2.2.5. @end itemize + +Extension: Gnulib provides a module @samp{utimens} that works around these +problems and allows to set the time with nanosecond resolution (as far as +supported by the file system). |