Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> 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