NAME

touch - update a file's atime & mtime timestamps

SYNOPSIS

#include <limb/posixplz.h>

int touch(const char *file)

DESCRIPTION

The touch() function will update both the atime and mtime timestamps of the file named file, creating it if it doesn't exist.

RETURN VALUE

The touch() function returns 1 on success. Otherwise it returns 0 and sets errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The touch() function may fail for any of the errors described for open_create(3).

It may also fail and set errno for the errors described for futimens(3), futimes(3) or utimes(3) depending on what's available on the system.