Re: utimensat(2) may/must confusion

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[off-list ref] 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!
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