Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:44:28 -0500 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6) |
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Hi!
> The point of my patchkit is to allow the file systems > who support better resolution to handle it properly. Other filesystems > are not worse than before when they flush inodes (and better off when > they keep everything in ram for your build because then they will enjoy > full time resolution)
What about always rounding down even when inode is in memory? That is both simple and consistent.
> If you really wanted that I would recommend to change make. > When all nanosecond parts are 0 it is reasonable for make to assume that > the fs doesn't support finegrained resolution. But I'm not sure it's > worth it.
Thats really ugly heuristics. What about filling nanosecond part with ~0 when unavailable?
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