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28.\" @(#)utime.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
29.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/utime.3,v 1.14 2007/01/09 00:27:56 imp Exp $
30.\"
31.Dd June 4, 1993
32.Dt UTIME 3
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm utime
36.Nd set file times
37.Sh LIBRARY
38.Lb libc
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.In utime.h
41.Ft int
42.Fo utime
43.Fa "const char *path"
44.Fa "const struct utimbuf *times"
45.Fc
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47.Bf -symbolic
48This interface is obsoleted by
49.Xr utimes 2 .
50.Ef
51.Pp
52The
53.Fn utime
54function sets the access and modification times of the named file,
55based on the
56.Va actime
57and
58.Va modtime
59fields of the
60.Vt "struct utimbuf"
61pointed at by
62.Fa times .
63.Pp
64If the times are specified (the
65.Fa times
66argument is
67.Pf non- Dv NULL ) ,
68the caller must be the owner of the file or be the super-user.
69.Pp
70If the times are not specified (the
71.Fa times
72argument is
73.Dv NULL ) ,
74the caller must be the owner of the file,
75have permission to write the file, or be the super-user.
76.Sh ERRORS
77The
78.Fn utime
79function may fail and set
80.Va errno
81for any of the errors specified for the library function
82.Xr utimes 2 .
83.Sh SEE ALSO
84.Xr stat 2 ,
85.Xr utimes 2
86.Sh STANDARDS
87The
88.Fn utime
89function conforms to
90.St -p1003.1-88 .
91.Sh HISTORY
92A
93.Fn utime
94function appeared in
95.At v7 .