Re: [PATCH] Change attachment stamping to use stat st_mtime by default.

Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
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On 2026-08-20 17:26:01 -0400, Reed Underwood wrote:
> Would it be preferable to just use gettimeofday (or another function that
> guarantees subsecond precision) and use only the seconds?

gettimeofday is no longer in any standard. It was replaced by
clock_gettime. But anyway, it is not possible to know which clock
is the same as the one used for the filesystem. Since the value
will be compared to st_mtime from stat(), it is better to also
use stat() for the comparison.

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