From 93a8eacde559ef3fd910f80f59208054ff99dab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Barry Warsaw Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 16:18:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the new additional signature for utime(). In addition to the previous functionality utime(path, (atime, mtime)), now allowed is utime(path, None) which sets the file's times to the current time. --- Doc/lib/libos.tex | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 4001447f357..0fb8f101859 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -702,9 +702,12 @@ Remove the file \var{path}. This is the same function as Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc} -\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, (atime, mtime)} -Set the access and modified time of the file to the given values. -(The second argument is a tuple of two items.) +\begin{funcdesc}{utime}{path, times} +Set the access and modified times of the file specified by \var{path}. +If \var{times} is \code{None}, then the file's access and modified +times are set to the current time. Otherwise, \var{times} must be a +2-tuple of numbers, of the form \var{(atime, mtime)} which is used to +set the access and modified times, respectively. Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX{}, Windows. \end{funcdesc}