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| author | Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org> | 2004-12-14 06:29:23 +0000 |
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| committer | H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> | 2004-12-14 07:51:43 +0000 |
| commit | 19a1cd1676ad60324d19ebf733410411423892b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 585d77b7e986333c2f17b45c0ff2aa35a497ae7f /pod | |
| parent | e8d8584e4717e20a3de330c4e726e8e2c16aee35 (diff) | |
| download | perl-19a1cd1676ad60324d19ebf733410411423892b4.tar.gz | |
[perl #3274] [PATCH] Documentation for utime should be improved
From: "Steve Peters via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-3274-103026.2.21000805211489@perl.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23647
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfaq5.pod | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod index ef6e32c040..ae71cd9540 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod @@ -684,9 +684,14 @@ of them. Error checking is, as usual, left as an exercise for the reader. -Note that utime() currently doesn't work correctly with Win95/NT -ports. A bug has been reported. Check it carefully before using -utime() on those platforms. +The perldoc for utime also has an example that has the same +effect as touch(1) on files that I<already exist>. + +Certain file systems have a limited ability to store the times +on a file at the expected level of precision. For example, the +FAT and HPFS filesystem are unable to create dates on files with +a finer granularity than two seconds. This is a limitation of +the filesystems, not of utime(). =head2 How do I print to more than one file at once? |