Re: [PATCH] up_to_date_p: treat equal mtime as outdated.

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/11/20 12:28 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> The up_to_date_p function uses mtime, which returns timestamps with
> second precision. Even if it were capable of returning higher precision
> timestamps, the file system might not support it.

These days file systems typically do support it, so can't we use 
higher-resolution file timestamps when they're available?
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