patch to add microsecond resolution support to cp -p, etc.

Sun patch 109933-02 for Solaris 8 sparc, released August 1, added support to "cp -p" to set file timestamps to microsecond resolution, instead of the old behavior, which set them only to 1-second resolution. Sun "make" relies on this new behavior so that "make" actions like "dest: source; cp -p so

Re: patch to add microsecond resolution support to cp -p, etc.

I wrote: > Why does utimens.c bother with utimes at all? :-) Because utimes lets you specify the fractional part of the file times. Now, I prefer the way you wrote utimens.c, but we'll need a replacement utimes function for systems where it's broken.

Re: patch to add microsecond resolution support to cp -p, etc.

"Paul Eggert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sun patch 109933-02 for Solaris 8 sparc, released August 1, added > support to "cp -p" to set file timestamps to microsecond resolution, > instead of the old behavior, which set them only to 1-second > resolution. Sun "make" relies on this new behavior so