Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:50:23 -0700 (PDT) From: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/10793: cvs update modification time check granularity is 1 second Message-ID: <200108130450.f7D4oNe77692@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10793; it has been noted by GNATS. From: jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG (Joseph Koshy) To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: bin/10793: cvs update modification time check granularity is 1 second Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:47:47 -0700 (PDT) A followup (material which I should have added to the PR log the first time round): One of the problems of keeping a higher resolution timestamp `portably' is that the POSIX and SUS specfication only require that `stat(2)' return a 'time_t' for field `st_mtime'. `time_t' measures time in "seconds", which is what CVS is using. FreeBSD/NetBSD/and possibly other OSes seem to maintain a higher-resolution timestamp, as a `struct timespec', but other OSes don't. Regards, Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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