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


From: Keith Marshall
Subject: Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:30:12 +0100
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On 26/08/14 18:22, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:25:38 -0700
>> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Autoconf <address@hidden>, Eric Blake <address@hidden>,
>>      bug-make <address@hidden>
>>
>> As far as Windows goes, NTFS file systems have 100 ns resolution, and 
>> FAT file systems are the joker as they have a 2-second resolution for 
>> last-modified time.
> 
> That's true, but FAT filesystems are hardly important these days.

Except insofar as they tend to be prevalent on removable media devices,
such as USB flash drives; woe betide anyone who happens to store their
working files on one of those.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.



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