GNU bug report logs - #13107
timestamp bug when files are created just before make is run

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas <at> artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 22:18:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 41843

Done: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas <at> artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Philip Guenther <guenther <at> gmail.com>, bug-automake <at> gnu.org,
	bug-make <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: timestamp bug when files are created just before make is run
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:45:45 +0100

Mikulas Patocka <mikulas <at> artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> BTW. on Linux, high precision timestamps have really kernel-tick 
> precision, not nanosecond precision.

The precision is as high as what the best hardware timer provides,
independent of the configured value of HZ.

Andreas.

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