Subject: bug#12820: FWIW, this is still happening as of gnulib 4a82904

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:08:50 -0800

On 02/27/13 10:25, Nix wrote:
> st1.st_ctime: 1361977729; st2.st_ctime: 1361977729; compare: 0; get_stat_ctime_ns(st1): 613474299, get_stat_ctime_ns(st2): 613474299
> 
> i.e. the nsec values are identical. This is surely valid: it just means
> the two stats were carried out in the same 1ns interval. All these
> asserts should be <= 0. 

No, because there's a "nap ()" in between, which means
the time stamps can't possibly be generated in the same
1 ns interval, at least, not if nap () is working.

Perhaps there's a bug in nap () but if so the bug should
be fixed there.