RFC: futimens(2) and utimensat(2)

[Jilles Tjoelker]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 06:59:29PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:40:54PM -0800, Xin Li wrote:
> > These are required by IEEE Std 1003.1-2008.  Patchset at:

> > http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/for_review/utimens.diff

> Hi Xin,
> Do you plan to commit this?

I would like to see a good implementation of futimens(2) and
utimensat(2) in 10.0. From what I remember, pluknet@'s patch was closer
to that than delphij@'s patch. (For example, a timespec array with both
values UTIME_NOW should require the same permissions as a NULL timespec
array.)

I wrote a man page:

http://www.stack.nl/~jilles/unix/utimensat.2

I think it is best to have a separate man page and not stuff the new
calls into the utimes/lutimes/futimes/futimesat man page, which would
end up rather confusing.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker