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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:52:32 -0400
> Cc: Autoconf <address@hidden>, Eric Blake <address@hidden>,
>       bug-make <address@hidden>
> 
> Of course the ability to track filesystems could be added without too
> much effort.  It's trivial to determine the filesystem in POSIX via the
> device ID available from stat(), of course, but I'm not sure what
> facilities are available on the other ports.

It's trivial on Windows as well.

> Although, I don't think either Windows or VMS support
> high-resolution timestamps right now

Correct.

> (I don't know why Windows doesn't, because NTFS does support
> millisecond resolution timestamps I believe)

Because no one wrote the code, of course.

The main problem is that this requires to write a replacement 'stat'
(not rocket science).