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    SubjectRe: Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem
    FromUlrich Drepper <>
    Date03 Oct 2001 01:06:19 -0700
    Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
    
    > For stat is also requires a changed glibc ABI -- the glibc/2.4 stat64
    
    Not only stat64, also plain stat.
    
    > structure reserved an additional 4 bytes for every timestamp, but these
    > either need to be used to give more seconds for the year 2038 problem
    > or be used for the ms fractions. y2038 is somewhat important too.
    
    The fields are meant for nanoseconds.  The y2038 will definitely be
    solved by time-shifting or making time_t unsigned.  In any way nothing
    of importance here and now.  Especially since there won't be many
    systems which are running today and which have a 32-bit time_t be used
    then.  For the rest I'm sure that in 37 years there will be the one or
    the other ABI change.
    
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