linux-kernel - Re: [QUESTION] file access time in millisecond?

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Message-Id: <200702121056.03467.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:56:03 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] file access time in millisecond?

On Monday 12 February 2007 10:52, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 12 Feb 2007 10:02:28 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:
> 
> > > stat() returns time in seconds,
> >
> > Not correct (at least for glibc stat). It supports nanoseconds these days,
> > although not all file systems (including ext3) do yet.
> 
> I'm using gcc-3.4.5, and glibc-2.3.6. Don't think 2.3.6 stat() support
> that ... 

It should be always available in padding, even on older glibc. Given a sufficiently
new kernel. The bigger problem is getting a file system that supports it.

> at least the man page doesn't indicate so. 

Manpages are often outdated.

-Andi
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