Hello Goldwyn, On 6/5/17 4:18 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> > > Linux kernel commit 337684a1746f "fs: return EPERM on immutable inode" > changed (nd unified the return value of the utimensat(2) from -EACCES > to -EPERM in case of an immutable flag. Modify the man page to > reflect the same. > > The entire discussion of returning the correct return value is at: > http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2017-January/003424.html > > Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Thanks. Patch (finally) applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > man2/utimensat.2 | 10 ++-------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/utimensat.2 b/man2/utimensat.2 > index f77d0b42a..c0bdf8808 100644 > --- a/man2/utimensat.2 > +++ b/man2/utimensat.2 > @@ -238,10 +238,7 @@ or both > .I tv_nsec > values are > .BR UTIME_NOW , > -and either: > -.RS > -.IP * 3 > -the effective user ID of the caller does not match > +and the effective user ID of the caller does not match > the owner of the file, > the caller does not have write access to the file, > and the caller is not privileged > @@ -249,7 +246,7 @@ and the caller is not privileged > .B CAP_FOWNER > or the > .B CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE > -capability); or, > +capability). > .\" But Linux 2.6.22 was broken here. > .\" Traditionally, utime()/utimes() gives the error EACCES for the case > .\" where the timestamp pointer argument is NULL (i.e., set both timestamps > @@ -271,9 +268,6 @@ capability); or, > .\" and the permissions of the directory to which > .\" .I fd > .\" refers do not allow searches. > -.IP * > -the file is marked immutable (see > -.BR chattr (1)). > .\" EXT2_IMMUTABLE_FL and similar flags for other filesystems. > .RE > .TP > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/