linux-ext4 - [PATCH] utimensat2: document AT_UTIME

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 02:00:15 -0800
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     kernel-team@...com, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] utimensat2: document AT_UTIME_BTIME

From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>
---
 man2/utimensat.2 | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/utimensat.2 b/man2/utimensat.2
index d61b43e96..3b7c62181 100644
--- a/man2/utimensat.2
+++ b/man2/utimensat.2
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ is ignored.
 .PP
 The
 .I flags
-field is a bit mask that may be 0, or include the following constant,
+field is a bit mask that may be 0, or include the following constants,
 defined in
 .IR <fcntl.h> :
 .TP
@@ -220,6 +220,36 @@ If
 .I pathname
 specifies a symbolic link, then update the timestamps of the link,
 rather than the file to which it refers.
+.TP
+.B AT_UTIME_BTIME
+Also update the file's "creation time" (\fIbtime\fP). If
+.I times
+is not NULL, then its length must be at least 3, and
+.IR times [2]
+specifies the new creation time. The
+.I tv_nsec
+field may be
+.BR UTIME_NOW
+or
+.BR UTIME_OMIT ;
+this has the same meaning as for the first two timestamps.
+If
+.I times
+is NULL, then the creation time is set to the current time.
+.IP
+Not all filesystems store the file creation time; if a filesystem does not, an
+error is returned. At least the following filesystems store the creation time:
+.RS
+.IP * 3
+Btrfs
+.IP *
+ext4, if the filesystem was created with an inode size of at least 256
+.IP *
+F2FS, if the filesystem was created with the inode_crtime feature
+.IP *
+XFS, if the filesystem was created with the v5 format (i.e., with CRCs enabled)
+.HP
+Support for this flag was added in Linux 5.2.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR utimensat ()
@@ -359,6 +389,12 @@ or, one of the prefix components of
 .I pathname
 is not a directory.
 .TP
+.B EOPNOTSUPP
+.I flags
+contains
+.BR AT_UTIME_BTIME
+but the filesystem does not store the file creation time.
+.TP
 .B EPERM
 The caller attempted to change one or both timestamps to a value
 other than the current time,
-- 
2.20.1