Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269987AbTGLF11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:27:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269986AbTGLF11 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:27:27 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:3053 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269987AbTGLF1Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:27:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:42:10 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls Message-Id: <20030711224210.6fee6a73.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3F0F9B0C.10604@redhat.com> References: <3F0F9B0C.10604@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 16 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > If > there are filesystems which store the sub-seconds on disk I think this > is necessary since otherwise all kinds of programs (including archives) > cannot be written correctly. If the sub-seconds only live in memory I > still think it would be good to have the syscalls but it would not be > that urgent. XFS (at least) stores nanoseconds on disk. So yes, I think we should make this change. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/