utimensat: Immutable flag returns EPERM

Linux kernel commit 337684a1746f "fs: return EPERM on immutable
inode" changed (nd unified the return value of the utimensat(2)
from -EACCES to -EPERM in case of an immutable flag. Modify the
man page to reflect the same.

The entire discussion of returning the correct return value is at:
http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ltp/2017-January/003424.html

[mtk: The change was in Linux 4.8]

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Goldwyn Rodrigues 2017-06-05 09:18:27 -05:00 committed by Michael Kerrisk
parent 6193e7abb8
commit 1083ffb4cb
1 changed files with 2 additions and 8 deletions

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@ -238,10 +238,7 @@ or both
.I tv_nsec
values are
.BR UTIME_NOW ,
and either:
.RS
.IP * 3
the effective user ID of the caller does not match
and the effective user ID of the caller does not match
the owner of the file,
the caller does not have write access to the file,
and the caller is not privileged
@ -249,7 +246,7 @@ and the caller is not privileged
.B CAP_FOWNER
or the
.B CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
capability); or,
capability).
.\" But Linux 2.6.22 was broken here.
.\" Traditionally, utime()/utimes() gives the error EACCES for the case
.\" where the timestamp pointer argument is NULL (i.e., set both timestamps
@ -271,9 +268,6 @@ capability); or,
.\" and the permissions of the directory to which
.\" .I fd
.\" refers do not allow searches.
.IP *
the file is marked immutable (see
.BR chattr (1)).
.\" EXT2_IMMUTABLE_FL and similar flags for other filesystems.
.RE
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