Change 23331 by davem@no-spam on 2004/09/20 22:11:29
Subject: Re: [perl #31586] utime does not reach expectations [PATCH]
From: LAUN Wolfgang <wolfgang.laun@no-spam>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:01:11 +0200
Message-Id: <DF27CDCBD2581D4B88431901094E4B4D02B0C88B@no-spam>
Clarify the effect of utime when the file isn't owned by the user
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perlfunc.pod#446 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlfunc.pod#446 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlfunc.pod
--- perl/pod/perlfunc.pod#445~23184~ Mon Aug 2 09:40:36 2004
+++ perl/pod/perlfunc.pod Mon Sep 20 15:11:29 2004
@@no-spam -6400,7 +6400,8 @@no-spam
and modification times, in that order. Returns the number of files
successfully changed. The inode change time of each file is set
to the current time. For example, this code has the same effect as the
-Unix touch(1) command when the files I<already exist>.
+Unix touch(1) command when the files I<already exist> and belong to
+the user running the program:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$atime = $mtime = time;
@@no-spam -6410,7 +6411,8 @@no-spam
the utime(2) function in the C library will be called with a null second
argument. On most systems, this will set the file's access and
modification times to the current time (i.e. equivalent to the example
-above.)
+above) and will even work on other users' files where you have write
+permission:
utime undef, undef, @no-spam
End of Patch.