>>>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Zac Medico wrote: >> Of the known packages which require timestamp preservation, do any >> of them use sub-second precision in their timestamp comparisons?
> I can speak for Emacs only, where the comparison code (in fileio.c) is > as follows: [...] > It uses stat(2), therefore nanoseconds are ignored. I've also checked with dev-lisp/sbcl and dev-lisp/cmucl. They use stat(2) or fstat(2), i.e. compare timestamps on the seconds level. Ulrich
