kern/181459: [patch] Addition of 'futimensat' call allowing to set file time with nanosecond precision

[Jilles Tjoelker]

The following reply was made to PR kern/181459; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, yuri at tsoft.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/181459: [patch] Addition of 'futimensat' call
 allowing to set file time with nanosecond precision
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:04:18 +0200

 This patch does not add the POSIX utimensat() and futimens() calls, but
 a non-standard function. This new function only solves one of the
 inexcusable problems with futimesat() (that it is limited to microsecond
 precision) but not that it cannot set times on symlinks.
 
 You can start with
 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2012-February/012410.html
 
 I wrote a man page
 http://www.stack.nl/~jilles/unix/utimensat.2
 
 I think this is close to done; it needs to be updated and re-tested.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker