futimesat - change timestamps of a file relative to a directory file descriptor

This system call is obsolete. Use utimensat(2) instead. The futimesat() system call operates in exactly the same way as utimes(2), except for the differences described in this manual page. If the pathname given in pathname is relative, then it is interpreted relative to the directory referred to by the file descriptor dirfd (rather than relative to the current working directory of the calling process, as is done by utimes(2) for a relative pathname). If pathname is relative and dirfd is the special value AT_FDCWD, then pathname is interpreted relative to the current working directory of the calling process (like utimes(2)). If pathname is absolute, then dirfd is ignored. (See openat(2) for an explanation of why the dirfd argument is useful.)

The same errors that occur for utimes(2) can also occur for futimesat(). The following additional errors can occur for futimesat(): EBADFpathname is relative but dirfd is neither AT_FDCWD nor a valid file descriptor. ENOTDIRpathname is relative and dirfd is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory.

Linux 2.6.16, glibc 2.4. It was implemented from a specification that was proposed for POSIX.1, but that specification was replaced by the one for utimensat(2). A similar system call exists on Solaris.

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

futimesat - change timestamps of a file relative to a directory file descriptor

On success, futimesat() returns a 0. On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

stat(2), utimensat(2), utimes(2), futimes(3), path_resolution(7) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 futimesat(2)

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#include<fcntl.h> /* Definition of AT_* constants */ #include<sys/time.h>[[deprecated]]intfutimesat(intdirfd,constchar*pathname,conststructtimevaltimes[2]); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): futimesat(): _GNU_SOURCE

glibc If pathname is NULL, then the glibc futimesat() wrapper function updates the times for the file referred to by dirfd.