On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 06:46:16PM +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> There is a problem with the print view update which comes down to the
> question: How do you tell if a file has changed.
> Currently I am using stat() and looking at mtime, but only the seconds
> are being stored it seems, no sub-second precision.
> What is the right way to test if a file has changed?
> Richard

According to [0] and [1] you can use stat and look at mtim (note: no
trailing e).

st_mtim.tv_nsec <- to see the nano seconds.

(of course the file system must support nanoseconds time stamps)

[0] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5086471/how-to-display-file-last-modification-time-on-linux#tab-top
[1] http://linux.die.net/man/2/stat

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