Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Andrew Pimlott) | Date | Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:59:35 -0400 | Subject | Re: Finegrained a/c/mtime was Re: Directory notification problem |
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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:44:20PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote: > But the point is you, only ever would want nano second resolution to make > sure you notice all changes to a file. A more general (and much simpler) > solution would be to gen_count++ every time a file's modified. What other > applications would require better than second resolution on files?
Correlating file timestamps with an event log. Comparing timestamps on different files (make). Real time is _much_ more useful (not to mention convenient) than a generation count; and given that we've survived with second resolution so far, I think the hypothetical collisions on a nanosecond scale are ignorable.
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