Sept. 6, 2002
2:31 p.m.
On 6 Sep 2002, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
A number of systems provide subsecond time stamp resolution for files. In particular:
- NFS v3 has nanosecond time stamps.
- Solaris 9 has nanosecond time stamps in stat(2), and microsecond time stamps in utimes(2). In addition, they have microsecond time stamps on ufs. It appears that other Unices have also extended stat(2), as does OS X.
- NTFS has 100ns resolution for time stamps.
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C. Make st_mtime a floating point number. This won't offer nanosecond resolution, as C doubles are not dense enough.
This seems to me the most Pythonic way. Are C doubles dense enough to offer 100 ns resolution ? /Paul