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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem time stamp resolution
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:48:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r61k2rl4.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A7232C.6050808@redhat.com> (Ulrich Drepper's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:18:04 -0800")

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> How can code at userlevel (e.g., glibc) determine the resolution of the
> a filesystem timestamp?

One issue is network file systems. The kernel has no idea what a
remote NFS (or other network) file system will support, because it
depends on the file system on the remote server.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-27  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-26 23:18 filesystem time stamp resolution Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-26 23:54 ` Al Viro
2009-02-26 23:57   ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-27  0:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-27  8:48 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-02-27 22:01   ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-02-27 22:23     ` Peter Staubach

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