[Python-Dev] Suggestion: stopping to trust os mtimes

[Moshe Zadka]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Tim Peters wrote:

[Moshe]
> How about having, in addition to the time-stamp, the size of the file?
> At least on UNIX, it comes for free with the same stat call.

 
[Tim]
> +1 from me.
<even more reasons>

Now there is the big problem, that this will be changing the header size.
I thought that this would be a good time anyway, since 1.5.2 pycs aren't
compatible with 1.6, but changing the header size is a bigger thing.

so-this-waits-until-guido-comes-back-i-guess-ly y'rs, Z.
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