Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment: > a struct timespec providing theoretical nanosecond precision.
Indeed. EXT3's timestamps have a 1s granularity, for example. Another possibility would be to store both mtime and st_size (it's the default heuristic used by rsync does to decide whether to skip a file). > Whether this would be useful remains to be decided. Dunno. On the one hand, it's frustrating to think that you can end up with a stale bytecode file forever (I've had more or less the same problem because of NFS mounts, and it can be quite puzzling when the last modification you made to the source file is not taken into account). OTOH, nobody has ever complained about this... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13645> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
