Re: howto touch a file - setTimes

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 7/24/17 1:11 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:

When I tried to set the atime and mtime of a file (f) via:

import std.datetime;
auto time = Clock.currTime();
setTimes(f,time,time);

I get "Operation not permitted."

This is caused on linux by the rule, that if you are not the owner of 
the file

you may only set the mtime of a file to current time.

A simple "touch filename" in terminal works.

Any hint? Do I have to use execute("touch filename")?


Hm... looking at the man page, it appears that you need to call the 
system call (e.g. utimes) with a null array.


This isn't possible via the current API. You could call it yourself 
instead of executing touch.


Would be a good enhancement request, please file: https://issues.dlang.org

-Steve

howto touch a file - setTimes

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-learn]

When I tried to set the atime and mtime of a file (f) via:

import std.datetime;
auto time = Clock.currTime();
setTimes(f,time,time);

I get "Operation not permitted."

This is caused on linux by the rule, that if you are not the 
owner of the file

you may only set the mtime of a file to current time.

A simple "touch filename" in terminal works.

Any hint? Do I have to use execute("touch filename")?