[coreutils] Re: [PATCH 2/2] stat: print timestamps to full resolution

[Andreas Schwab]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> * src/stat.c (epoch_time): New function.
> (print_stat): Use it for %[WXYZ].
> * NEWS: Document this.
> * tests/touch/60-seconds: Adjust test to match.
> ---
>
> It bugs me that %x has more information than %X in 'stat --format',
> especially, since we don't support any format modifiers for getting
> at the additional information.  We're already incompatible with
> BSD stat(1) format modifiers, and there is no standard for stat(1),
> so I wasn't too worried about changing the meaning of existing
> modifiers rather than burning new letters just for the nanosecond
> portions.  And now that POSIX 2008 requires nanonsecond resolution
> in stat(2), you could argue that we should always be displaying it.

There are a lot of scripts that assume whole integer output from
%[WXYZ].  It would have been better to make this optional and
non-default.

Andreas.

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