On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:38:16AM -0800, Glenn Faden wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >One reason to not use a timestamp is to avoid issues with any future fix > >for the RFE that zones' clocks should be able to have time offsets > >w.r.t. the global zone. > > Since the proposed cron job code only executes in the global zone. the > zone clock issue isn't relevant.
What I meant is: would a stat() in the gz of a file in an ngz return the same timestamps as a stat() in the ngz of the same file? If yes, then -newer is dangerous. Wanting the answer to be "no" might complicate that RFE, for all I know. Nico --
