Paul Eggert wrote: > > If, on the other hand, the time_t type is larger than the one used in the > > filesystem, you can get EOVERFLOW during utime(). > > Sure, but stat() is much, much more popular than utime(). It's used > universally, by lots of standard applications and (worse) libraries we > have no control over; in contrast, utime() is used only by a few apps > like touch, cp -p, and tar, where we do have direct control. I'd much > rather have the utime() problem than the stat() proble.
OK, point taken. You've convinced me. Bruno
