On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 03:14:52PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> I've been playing with stat() for a while. During my experiments I noticed
> that stat()'s st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime seems to be accurate down to
> the nearest second.
>
> Is there any way I can get much more accuracy than that for files?
No.
See filesystems, some might support micro/nanosecond timers
too, but there are even ones which support 2sec granularity
(DOS FAT).
The VFS layer carries only time_t object for files, so even
if FS supplies finer granularity, you can't get it thru the
VFS..
> Cheers,
> Alex
> --
/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>
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