Change default VFS timestamp precision?

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 17 19:02:47 UTC 2014


On 17 December 2014 at 09:28, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <2034186.iLaW9EGnEt at ralph.baldwin.cx>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>>My bad for not checking that further but for assuming make would be impacted.
>
> I think it is over 10 years ago when make(1) first started seeing
> identical timestamps which wasn't.
>
> In most Makefiles this doesn't matter, but there are cases, in particular
> in less integrated families of makefiles than our own.

Surely there has to be better ways of doing this stuff. Computers keep
getting faster; it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that we
could see a compiler read, compile and spit out a .o inside of a
millisecond. (Obviously not C++, but..)


-adrian


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