Bug 240158 - utimensat system call (and C API) should allow more than 2 timestamps, to simplify changing birth time
Summary: utimensat system call (and C API) should allow more than 2 timestamps, to sim...
Status: New
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Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: 12.0-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
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Reported: 2019-08-28 02:40 UTC by Sean McBride
Modified: 2019-08-28 02:40 UTC (History)
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Description Sean McBride 2019-08-28 02:40:29 UTC 
The utimensat() man page says:

"To set both a birth time and a modification time, two calls are required; the first to set the birth time and the second to set the (presumably newer) modification time.  Ideally a new system call will be added that allows the setting of all three times at once."

Such a newer system call would indeed simplify changing the birthtime of a file, which currently is rather complicated to edit.

I can't find any existing bug for this, so thought I'd create one...