Re: utimensat UTIME_NOW granularity bug

[Thomas Wolff <towo at computer dot org>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 09:23:38PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > According to Christopher Faylor on 10/8/2009 3:24 PM:
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> > > > I think we need to implement a companion to systime(), which returns the system 
> > > > time without any truncation, so that the function clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) 
> > > > can report time with resolution to the 10th of a microsecond rather than to 
> > > > plain microseconds.  Then utimensat needs to use clock_gettime rather than 
> > > > gettimeofday, so that it is not needlessly truncating the 10th of microsecond 
> > > > resolution available from Windows.
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> > > Why not send these type of musings to the cygwin-developers list?  It really
> > > is more appropriate for this type of discussion.
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> > Sorry about the wrong list.  At any rate, what about this patch?
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> > ...
> I don't like "MILLION" or "BILLION".  I think a real number is clearer
> for that.  ...
And, speaking about I18N, "Billion" has a different meaning in the US 
and in Germany (where it is 1000 times as much) which occasionally gives 
rise to confusion (don't know about other countries' usage).

Thomas