On 11/13/2010 02:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Here's what I'm planning.
Looks good, thanks, except for NEWS:
> + a nanosecond-precision floating point time stamp for %X use %.X;
It's fixed-point, not floating point, so I'd remove "floating point".
And in coreutils.texi:
> +precision, @command{stat} uses 9 digits, so @samp{%.X} is equivalent to
> +...@samp{%.9x} When discarding excess precision, time stamps are truncated
There's a period missing after the "@samp{%.9X}" (though ideally the sentence
would be reworded so as to avoid the need for any period after the sample,
as the "%.9X." looks bad when it's printed).