On 01/04/2015 13:07, Rainer Jung wrote:
> Am 01.04.2015 um 12:45 schrieb ma...@apache.org:
>> Author: markt
>> Date: Wed Apr  1 10:45:04 2015
>> New Revision: 1670609
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1670609
>> Log:
>> Update changelog
>>
>> Modified:
>>      tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
>>
>> Modified: tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
>> URL:
>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml?rev=1670609&r1=1670608&r2=1670609&view=diff
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>>
>> --- tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml (original)
>> +++ tomcat/tc8.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/changelog.xml Wed Apr  1
>> 10:45:04 2015
>> @@ -68,7 +68,15 @@
>>           automatic deployment process, account for the fact that
>>           <code>File.lastModified()</code> has a resolution of one
>> second to
>>           ensure that if a file has been modified within the last
>> second, the
>> -        latest version of the file is always used. (markt)
>> +        latest version of the file is always used. Note that a
>> side-effect of
>> +        this change is that files with modification times in the
>> future are
>> +        treated as if they are unmodified. (markt)
> 
> I'm a bit lazy to research this myself and I hope you know instantly:
> 
> If the file system is on NFS and the local server is virtualized, it is
> not rare, that FS times might be slightly in the future.
> 
> Will "files with modification times in the future are treated as if they
> are unmodified" change, once the future turns into the past? More
> precisely, if the file is changed, its modification time is in the
> future (relative to now on the local system), but some time later the
> file which was not changed any more now has a mod time in the past
> (since "now" advanced on the local system), will it then be detected as
> modified?

Yes.

Mark


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