Jean-Claude wrote:
Skip Montanaro wrote:
[dir stat cache times]
... Then I realized that since file times are only recorded with one-second
Or two, on Windows with older (FAT, as opposed to VFAT) file systems.
Oh lordy, it gets worse. With a time.sleep(1.0) between new files, Linux detects the change in the dir's mtime immediately. Cool. On NT, I get an average 2.0 sec delay. But sometimes it doesn't detect a delay in 100 secs (and my script quits). Then I added a stat of some file in the directory before the stat of the directory, (not the file I added). Now it acts just like Linux - no delay (on both FAT and NTFS partitions). OK...
I think. Maybe. Until you get into network drives and clock skew...
No success whatsoever in either direction across Samba. In fact the mtime of my Linux home directory as seen from NT is Jan 1, 1980. - Gordon