From: Steve Peters Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 06:29:23 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [perl #3274] [PATCH] Documentation for utime should be improved X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=19a1cd1676ad60324d19ebf733410411423892b4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git [perl #3274] [PATCH] Documentation for utime should be improved From: "Steve Peters via RT" Message-ID: p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23647 --- diff --git a/pod/perlfaq5.pod b/pod/perlfaq5.pod index ef6e32c..ae71cd9 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq5.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq5.pod @@ -684,9 +684,14 @@ of them. Error checking is, as usual, left as an exercise for the reader. -Note that utime() currently doesn't work correctly with Win95/NT -ports. A bug has been reported. Check it carefully before using -utime() on those platforms. +The perldoc for utime also has an example that has the same +effect as touch(1) on files that I. + +Certain file systems have a limited ability to store the times +on a file at the expected level of precision. For example, the +FAT and HPFS filesystem are unable to create dates on files with +a finer granularity than two seconds. This is a limitation of +the filesystems, not of utime(). =head2 How do I print to more than one file at once?