Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: nanosecond file timestamp resolution in filesystems, GNU make, etc. | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 28 Oct 2002 12:08:07 +0100 |
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Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Unfortunately that application code breaks when the filesystem may > have timestamps with resolution better than 1 second, but worse than 1 > nanosecond.
The current resolution is jiffies, which tends to be 1ms
Then the application just can't do the right thing, > unless it knows what rounding was applied by the kernel/filesystem, so > it can change that rounding in a safe direction.
The rounding is always truncation. So the application can just assume that.
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