Would it be preferable to just use gettimeofday (or another function
that guarantees subsecond precision) and use only the seconds?
On 8/20/26 16:16, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 10:54 +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Recent Linux kernels have an issue where time() has a lower
granularity than the stat st_mtime of a file. This can result in
time() being earlier than the mtime of a file just modified.
See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144613
Oswald is right that it should work to truncate times to the second
for comparison. (I guess time() + 1 is a shortcut to the same
outcome.) Might be some trouble to do that portably. There's the
standard C library function difftime()...
Seems better to do that than to hit the filesystem through stat().
