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Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: POSIX ruling on up-to-date vs. identical timestamps
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:59:13 -0700
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Ray Donnelly wrote:
There was a bug in libfaketime so that the nanosecond field wasn't
cleared

That sounds like it's a different issue. If a program botches the nanosecond component of timestamps, it shouldn't matter whether 'make' uses the traditional/GNU or the HP-UX approach; either way, you can get into trouble.

If I'm misunderstanding the libfaketime issue, could you please explain it with an example?



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