Clean up manpage; cross-reference utime(3).

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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)utimes.2 6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/91
.\" $Id: utimes.2,v 1.2 1993/08/01 07:42:02 mycroft Exp $
.\" @(#)utimes.2 6.7 (Berkeley) 4/19/91
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1991
.Dt UTIMES 2
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn utimes
function sets the access and modification times of the named file from
the structures in the argument array
.Fa times .
function sets the access and modification times of the named.
.Pp
The first structure is the access time, and the second is the modification
time.
.Pp
If the times are specified (the
If
.Fa times
argument is
.Pf non- Dv NULL )
the caller must be the owner of the file or be the super-user.
.Pp
If the times are not specified (the
.Fa times
argument is
.Dv NULL )
the caller must be the owner of the file, have permission to
is
.Dv NULL ,
the access and modification times are set to the current time.
The caller must be the owner of the file, have permission to
write the file, or be the super-user.
.Pp
If
.Fa times
is
.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
it is assumed to point to an array of two timeval structures.
The access time is set to the value of the first element, and the
modification time is set to the value of the second element.
The caller must be the owner of the file or be the super-user.
.Pp
In either case, the inode-change-time of the file is set to the current
time.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and
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The file system containing the file is mounted read-only.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr stat 2
.Xr stat 2 ,
.Xr utime 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm