[Python-Dev] Bizarre mtime behaviour

[Eric Smith]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Adam Olsen <rhamph <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Looks like an OS bug to me.  Linux I'm guessing?
> 
> Yes, but only on certain boxes. I could never reproduce on my home box.
> RDM (David)'s buildbot is a Gentoo vserver with a reiserfs filesystem.

You'll occasionally see something similar on Windows boxes running FAT, 
because the timestamps stored in the filesystem have a 2 second 
granularity there. Not sure if this might be similar, or just a reiserfs 
issue.

Eric.