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DateWed, 3 Oct 2001 11:15:04 -0400 (EDT)
FromAlex Larsson <>
SubjectRe: Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem
On 3 Oct 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Is a nanoseconds field the right choice though? In reality you might not 
have a nanosecond resolution timer, so you would miss changes that appear
on shorter timescale than the timer resolution. Wouldn't a generation 
counter, increased when ctime was updated, be a better solution?

/ Alex


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