Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:52:06 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Question about stat() |
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 03:14:52PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote: > I've been playing with stat() for a while. During my experiments I noticed > that stat()'s st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime seems to be accurate down to > the nearest second. > > Is there any way I can get much more accuracy than that for files?
No.
See filesystems, some might support micro/nanosecond timers too, but there are even ones which support 2sec granularity (DOS FAT).
The VFS layer carries only time_t object for files, so even if FS supplies finer granularity, you can't get it thru the VFS..
> Cheers, > Alex > --
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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