Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:
>
> > Another way would be to round on flush, but that also has some problems :-
>
> Rounding is even worse. GNU Make assumes truncation, i.e. it assumes
> that a timestamp is truncated (floored, actually) when it is stored on
> a non-nanosecond-aware filesystem.
That is what my patchkit does currently, so I guess it should work fine.
>
> > In my current patchkit I just chose to truncate because that was the
> > easiest and the other more complicated solutions didn't offer any
> > compeling advantage.
>
> Can't you truncate/floor to filesystem timestamp resolution
> immediately, i.e., before the inode is flushed? That would address
> the problems that I see.
That would complicate the timestamp management in the kernel considerably.
I'm not sure if I want to do that, probably not.
-Andi
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