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utimes(2),utime(3): Add deprecation in favour of utimensat(2) and futimens(2).

Setting time by seconds or microseconds may cause unexpected effects
especially if sysctl vfs.timestamp_precision=3 (not default).

Calling the obsolete functions with NULL timestamps is acceptable.
This commit is contained in:
Jilles Tjoelker 2016-06-09 22:14:58 +00:00
parent ef347e56a2
commit f4aa4c78c7
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=301768
2 changed files with 19 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" @(#)utime.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 4, 1993
.Dd June 9, 2016
.Dt UTIME 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
This interface is obsoleted by
.Xr utimes 2 .
.Xr utimensat 2
because it is not accurate to fractions of a second.
.Ef
.Pp
The
@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ for any of the errors specified for the library function
.Xr utimes 2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr utimensat 2 ,
.Xr utimes 2
.Sh STANDARDS
The

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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" @(#)utimes.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd July 3, 2014
.Dd June 9, 2016
.Dt UTIMES 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -52,6 +52,14 @@
.Ft int
.Fn futimesat "int fd" "const char *path" "const struct timeval times[2]"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Bf -symbolic
These interfaces are obsoleted by
.Xr futimens 2
and
.Xr utimensat 2
because they are not accurate to nanoseconds.
.Ef
.Pp
The access and modification times of the file named by
.Fa path
or referenced by
@ -223,6 +231,7 @@ nor a file descriptor associated with a directory.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chflags 2 ,
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr utimensat 2 ,
.Xr utime 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
@ -231,7 +240,11 @@ function is expected to conform to
.St -xpg4.2 .
The
.Fn futimesat
system call follows The Open Group Extended API Set 2 specification.
system call follows The Open Group Extended API Set 2 specification
but was replaced by
.Fn utimensat
in
.St -p1003.1-2008 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Fn utimes