Re: [PATCH] utimensat() non-conformances and fixes [v3]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:01:35PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:

quoted

with a lot of things, starting with "why utimes(2) has weaker requirements
with NULL argument", but we are far too late to fix that.

To be fair, having a writable file descriptor only lets you change the
mtime to "now", and having a readable file descriptor only lets you
change the atime to "now".

Changing the times _in general_ can be seen as over-reaching those
capabilities and arguably justifies more strict checks.

Which is what all questions about writability apply only to NULL case
anyway...
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