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

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> From: Paul Smith <psmith@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:52:32 -0400
> Cc: Autoconf <Autoconf@xxxxxxx>, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> 	bug-make <bug-make@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Of course the ability to track filesystems could be added without too
> much effort.  It's trivial to determine the filesystem in POSIX via the
> device ID available from stat(), of course, but I'm not sure what
> facilities are available on the other ports.

It's trivial on Windows as well.

> Although, I don't think either Windows or VMS support
> high-resolution timestamps right now

Correct.

> (I don't know why Windows doesn't, because NTFS does support
> millisecond resolution timestamps I believe)

Because no one wrote the code, of course.

The main problem is that this requires to write a replacement 'stat'
(not rocket science).

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