linux-kernel - Re: Revised statx(2) man page for review

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Message-ID: <864d7dbb-9fa7-deb2-e379-8d99a6e8c2aa@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:42:12 +0200
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Revised statx(2) man page for review

On 04/25/2017 10:06 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:14:26PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> [...]
>>        The file timestamps are structures of the following type:
>>
>>            struct statx_timestamp {
>>                __s64 tv_sec;    /* Seconds since the Epoch (UNIX time) */
>>                __s32 tv_nsec;   /* Nanoseconds before or since tv_sec */
>>            };
> 
> Nanoseconds since tv_sec.  The "before tv_sec" is not implemented yet
> and I hope nobody is going to implement it for the reasons I mentioned
> in https://marc.info/?i=20170422192743.GA17005%40altlinux.org

Thanks Dmitry. Fixed.

Cheers,

Michael


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