[Python-Dev] Subsecond time stamps
Paul Svensson
paul-python@svensson.org
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:31:25 -0400 (EDT)
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