UTIME(3) BSD Library Functions Manual UTIME(3)NAMEutime — set file times
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <utime.h>
int
utime(const char *file, const struct utimbuf *timep);
DESCRIPTION
This interface is obsoleted by utimes(2).
The utime() function sets the access and modification times of the named
file from the actime and modtime fields of the struct utimbuf pointed at
by timep.
If the times are specified (the timep argument is non-NULL) the caller
must be the owner of the file or be the super-user.
If the times are not specified (the timep argument is NULL) the caller
must be the owner of the file, have permission to write the file, or be
the super-user.
ERRORS
The utime() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors speci‐
fied for the library function utimes(2).
SEE ALSOstat(2), utimes(2)STANDARDS
The utime() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY
A utime() function appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD