Replying by email, since my account on the trac is blocked. Open Shake implements the finer resolution timestamps needed using the Win32 API. You may want to copy/adapt the code from there:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/shake/0.3.7/doc/html/src/Development-Shake-FileTime.html#line-69 Regards, Malcolm On 3 Dec 2012, at 13:01, GHC wrote: > #7473: getModificationTime gives only second-level resolution > -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- > The `System.Directory.getModificationTime` function only returns time with > second-level granularity. This is no good for applications like `ghc > --make` where we need to compare file timestamps. > > The fix should be simple, here's a patch (compiles but not tested) that > should fix it for Unix, for Windows we will need a different fix, probably > using the Win32 API directly, rather than the mingw C api. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
