Brian Harring wrote: > This discussion in generall is daft. No package can rely on > nanonsecond resolution for installation because the most common FS out > there (ext3) does *second* level resolution only. As such, I can > pretty much gurantee there is *zero* packages out there that require > nanosecond resolution for installation.
Your "guarantee" is filesystem-specific. However, if we can establish that all known packages with timestamp preservation requirements do their timestamp comparisons with 1-second granularity, then we'll have a much safer (filesystem-independent) assumption. -- Thanks, Zac
