From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>
Cc: 12802@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12802: 23.4; feature wish: file-attributes in microsecond precision
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:40:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwqy0ra6v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hap51082.fsf@wallace.tews.net> (Hendrik Tews's message of "Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:18:05 +0100")
> please make file access/modification/status change times available in
> microsecond precision on those systems that support that.
Your wish has been granted.
> Motivation: I am maintaining an extension of Proof General that
> compiles Coq source files to Coq object files on the fly when
> needed. For that I have to compare file modification times in a
> way similar to make.
AFAIK `make' does not require such fine-precision. Basically if the
time-stamp on the generated file is equal to the source, then it's
considered as new enough (IOW in the absence of a proof that the
generated file is older, it is assumed to be newer).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-05 3:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-04 22:18 bug#12802: 23.4; feature wish: file-attributes in microsecond precision Hendrik Tews
2012-11-05 2:59 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-05 3:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-05 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-05 23:43 ` Stefan Monnier
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