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Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:57:24 -0700
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David Boyce wrote:
The obvious compromise would be to change the behavior only in the
presence of the ".POSIX:" special target.

We should limit ".POSIX" to what POSIX requires. Even if the ruling stands POSIX won't require the HP-UX behavior, so ".POSIX" should be independent of this issue.

It'd be OK to introduce a new special target to enable the HP-UX behavior. .EQUAL_TIMES_ARE_OUT-OF-DATE, say. We could document the new target next to .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME, since they're related issues. The new target could act like .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME, except that it imposes HP-UX rather than low-res behavior.



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