Re: patch to add microsecond resolution support to cp -p, etc.

2003-08-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun patch 109933-02 for Solaris 8 sparc, released August 1, added support to cp -p to set file timestamps to microsecond resolution, instead of the old behavior, which set them only to 1-second resolution. Sun make relies on this new behavior so that make

Re: patch to add microsecond resolution support to cp -p, etc.

2003-08-11 Thread Jim Meyering
I wrote: Why does utimens.c bother with utimes at all? :-) Because utimes lets you specify the fractional part of the file times. Now, I prefer the way you wrote utimens.c, but we'll need a replacement utimes function for systems where it's broken.