Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:26:38 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r231383 - in head: lib/libutil usr.sbin/vipw Message-ID: <201202131126.38759.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201202101340.q1ADeWDj076596@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201202101340.q1ADeWDj076596@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Friday, February 10, 2012 8:40:32 am Ed Schouten wrote: > Author: ed > Date: Fri Feb 10 13:40:32 2012 > New Revision: 231383 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/231383 > > Log: > Detect file modification properly by using tv_nsec. > > POSIX 2008 standardizes st_mtim, meaning we can simply use nanosecond > precision to detect file modification. > > MFC after: 2 weeks Eh, the BUG is still worth mentioning. By default FreeBSD only uses second granularity for VFS timestamps, so two updates within a single second is still racey. You can keep the code change, but I would revert the manual page change to put the BUG back as your change didn't remove it. -- John Baldwin
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