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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0db82c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +@node utimes +@section @code{utimes} +@findex utimes + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/utimes.html} + +Gnulib module: --- + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 9, 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 +This function cannot set full timestamp resolution. In particular, +some platforms incorrectly round rather than truncate. Use +@code{utimensat(AT_FDCWD,file,times,0)}, or the gnulib module utimens, +instead. +@item +On some platforms, @code{utimes (file, NULL)} fails to set the +file's timestamp to the current time: +glibc 2.3.3. +@item +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). |