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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: mtime preservation
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:55:27 -0800
Duncan wrote:
> David Leverton posted on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:35:53 +0000 as excerpted:
> 
>> If we're not going to insist on preserving nanoseconds as far as
>> possible, then package managers should be required to explcitly clear
>> the nanoseconds part.
> 
> While I'm not sure what it's going to do to install-times and thus 
> whether it's practical, this /does/ at least in theory make quite some 
> sense to me.

This seems like a pretty reasonable (and easy) thing to do. All that
we have to do is round the mtime value before it's passed into the
os.utime() call.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac


References:
mtime preservation
-- Denis Dupeyron
Re: mtime preservation
-- Denis Dupeyron
Re: Re: mtime preservation
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: mtime preservation
-- Duncan
Re: Re: mtime preservation
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: mtime preservation
-- Ulrich Mueller
Re: mtime preservation
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: mtime preservation
-- Zac Medico
Re: mtime preservation
-- Brian Harring
Re: mtime preservation
-- David Leverton
Re: mtime preservation
-- Duncan
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