On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, j. van den hoff
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:42:37 +0200, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:33 AM, j. van den hoff
>> <[email protected]>**wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I guess the problem might be related to `fossil' checking `mtime' with a
>>> too low time resolution. is this possible? it is of course irrelevant for
>>> interactive use but not so for scripts like this one.
>>>
>>>
>> The default behavior is for Fossil to check both stat.st_mtime and
>>
>
> so the time resolution here is 1 second, right? could that not be increased
> (say to 1 ms or so)?


No, at least not in a cross-platform way.  Many filesystems do not store
timestamps with a resolution higher than one second.  (Bummer, I know, but
40 years ago when mtime was first invented, a one-second timestamp was high
resolution for the hardware available!)

-- 
D. Richard Hipp
[email protected]
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