futimes()?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
1 Feb 2003 17:53:22 -0800

In the general vein of avoiding security holes by using file
descriptors when doing repeated operations on the same filesystem
object, I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be a way to set
mtime using a file descriptor. Do we need a futimes() syscall?

-hpa

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