Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>  > Anyone think maybe _FIOSATIME ioctl ought to be supported on more
>  > (ideally all) filesystems, and promoted from private to something more
>  > widely usable?  Seems to me any really transparent backup utility would
>  > like to be able to do this, to not mess up atime as a consequence of
>  > backing up the file, nor ctime as a consequence of restoring the
>  > pre-backup atime.
>
> If we do decide to promote such a facility, I'd hope we'd find a less ugly
> interface for it.

What is is that you don't like?

What I like to see for any of the set time interfaces for files is support
for nanoseconds.

Jörg

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