Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 00:42:10 EST


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> If
> there are filesystems which store the sub-seconds on disk I think this
> is necessary since otherwise all kinds of programs (including archives)
> cannot be written correctly. If the sub-seconds only live in memory I
> still think it would be good to have the syscalls but it would not be
> that urgent.

XFS (at least) stores nanoseconds on disk. So yes, I think we should make
this change.
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