Re: Question about stat()

From: Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Date: Sat Feb 19 2000 - 10:52:06 EST

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    On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 03:14:52PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
    > I've been playing with stat() for a while. During my experiments I noticed
    > that stat()'s st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime seems to be accurate down to
    > the nearest second.
    >
    > Is there any way I can get much more accuracy than that for files?

            No.

            See filesystems, some might support micro/nanosecond timers
            too, but there are even ones which support 2sec granularity
            (DOS FAT).

            The VFS layer carries only time_t object for files, so even
            if FS supplies finer granularity, you can't get it thru the
            VFS..

    > Cheers,
    > Alex
    > --

    /Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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