vasnprintf: Add more tests.

[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / utimes.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
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--- a/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/utimes.texi
@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 This function is missing on some platforms:
 mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
 @item
-This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX.  Better use @code{utime}
+On some platforms, this function mis-handles trailing slash:
+FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
+@item
+This function cannot set full timestamp resolution.  In particular,
+some platforms incorrectly round rather than truncate.  Use
+@code{utimensat(AT_FDCWD,file,times,0)}, or the gnulib module utimens,
 instead.
+@item
+On some platforms, @code{utimes (file, NULL)} fails to set the
+file's timestamp to the current time:
+glibc 2.3.3.
+@item
+On some platforms, @code{utimes} failed on read-only files when
+@code{utime} worked fine.
+glibc 2.2.5.
 @end itemize