-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 12/17/10 06:22 , Arnaud Bailly wrote:
Thanks for your answers. I am a little bit surprised, I thought
timestamps were on the milliseconds scale.
POSIX timestamps are seconds.
- --
brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]
Thanks for your answers. I am a little bit surprised, I thought
timestamps were on the milliseconds scale.
@Krzysztof: Yes, you are right, an event-based interface is far
superior to the basic polling approach I took. At present, a couple
seconds granularity is fine with my use case so I don't
actually, IRL the code works as expected. Might it be possible that
the speed of test execution is greater than the granularity of the
system's modification timestamp?
___
Haskell-Cafe mailing list
Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org
Yes, modification times are reported in seconds, so you'll have to
wait on average 0.5s for a file change to be visible via the
modification date. Due to buffers and filesystem optimisations it
might even take longer.
On 16 December 2010 16:50, Arnaud Bailly arnaud.oq...@gmail.com wrote:
If this is not a toy program I would really suggest using something that is
builtin in the OS of choice. On Linux there is inotify (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify), but I'm pretty sure that other OSes
have similar interfaces. The modification time method seems really fragile
and I probably
