os: add Chtimes function

R=rsc, r
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/1103041

Committer: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>

2 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/os/file.go b/src/pkg/os/file.go
index ccecf67ed..3196406d6 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/file.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/file.go
@@ -407,3 +407,19 @@ func (f *File) Truncate(size int64) Error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// Chtimes changes the access and modification times of the named
+// file, similar to the Unix utime() or utimes() functions.
+//
+// The argument times are in nanoseconds, although the underlying
+// filesystem may truncate or round the values to a more
+// coarse time unit.
+func Chtimes(name string, atime_ns int64, mtime_ns int64) Error {
+	var utimes [2]syscall.Timeval
+	utimes[0] = syscall.NsecToTimeval(atime_ns)
+	utimes[1] = syscall.NsecToTimeval(mtime_ns)
+	if e := syscall.Utimes(name, &utimes); e != 0 {
+		return &PathError{"chtimes", name, Errno(e)}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/src/pkg/os/os_test.go b/src/pkg/os/os_test.go
index 5fb599265..b2332f0c8 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/os_test.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/os_test.go
@@ -483,6 +483,48 @@ func TestTruncate(t *testing.T) {
 	Remove(Path)
 }
 
+func TestChtimes(t *testing.T) {
+	MkdirAll("_obj", 0777)
+	const Path = "_obj/_TestChtimes_"
+	fd, err := Open(Path, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT, 0666)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("create %s: %s", Path, err)
+	}
+	fd.Write([]byte("hello, world\n"))
+	fd.Close()
+
+	preStat, err := Stat(Path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Stat %s: %s", Path, err)
+	}
+
+	// Move access and modification time back a second
+	const OneSecond = 1e9 // in nanoseconds
+	err = Chtimes(Path, preStat.Atime_ns-OneSecond, preStat.Mtime_ns-OneSecond)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Chtimes %s: %s", Path, err)
+	}
+
+	postStat, err := Stat(Path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("second Stat %s: %s", Path, err)
+	}
+
+	if postStat.Atime_ns >= preStat.Atime_ns {
+		t.Errorf("Atime_ns didn't go backwards; was=%d, after=%d",
+			preStat.Atime_ns,
+			postStat.Atime_ns)
+	}
+
+	if postStat.Mtime_ns >= preStat.Mtime_ns {
+		t.Errorf("Mtime_ns didn't go backwards; was=%d, after=%d",
+			preStat.Mtime_ns,
+			postStat.Mtime_ns)
+	}
+
+	Remove(Path)
+}
+
 func TestChdirAndGetwd(t *testing.T) {
 	fd, err := Open(".", O_RDONLY, 0)
 	if err != nil {