On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm reluctant to note that point too prominently, since it's > obviously not the kind of thing we want to encourage user-space > programmers to do, but at the bottom of NOTES, I added: > > If both tv_nsec fields are specified as UTIME_OMIT, then the > Linux implementation of utimensat() succeeds even if the file > referred to by dirfd and pathname does not exist. > > Okay? sgtm. anyone who tries to use that man page without carefully reading the NOTES and BUGS sections is going to have a bad time anyway. (plus i suspect that one day this will migrate to the BUGS section :-) ) thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
