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Re: preserving full timestamps



In article <tkr4mtl4gh1.fsf%sigxcpu.sm.sony.co.jp@localhost>,
 <tsugutomo.enami%jp.sony.com@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi.
>
>As you know, userland tools like cp(1) currently preserve timestamps
>only up to microseconds order since there was no system call to set full
>timestamps.
>
>Nowadays, we have such system calls.  So, I'd like to change those tools
>to set full timestamps unless there is an objection.
>
>In addition, test(1) is already changed to compare full timestamps.  So,
>unlike on netbsd-6 or earlier, currently the result of test -ot/nt may
>be inconsistent even when timestamps are copied in a same filesystem or
>between filesystems of same type.

Sure, but why the ifdefs in mv?

christos



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