utime.h - Man Page

access and modification times structure

Prolog

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Synopsis

#include <utime.h>

Description

The <utime.h> header shall declare the utimbuf structure, which shall include the following members:

time_t    actime    Access time.
time_t    modtime   Modification time.

The times shall be measured in seconds since the Epoch.

The <utime.h> header shall define the time_t type as described in <sys/types.h>.

The following shall be declared as a function and may also be defined as a macro. A function prototype shall be provided.

int utime(const char *, const struct utimbuf *);

The following sections are informative.

Application Usage

The utime() function only allows setting file timestamps to the nearest second. Applications should use the utimensat() function instead. See <sys/stat.h>.

Rationale

None.

Future Directions

The <utime.h> header may be removed in a future version.

See Also

<sys_stat.h>, <sys_types.h>

The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1-2017, futimens(), utime()

Referenced By

utime(3p).

2017 IEEE/The Open Group POSIX Programmer's Manual