Re: Question about stat()

[Matti Aarnio]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 03:14:52PM +0000, Alex Buell wrote:
> I've been playing with stat() for a while. During my experiments I noticed
> that stat()'s st_atime, st_mtime and st_ctime seems to be accurate down to
> the nearest second. 
> 
> Is there any way I can get much more accuracy than that for files? 

	No.

	See filesystems, some might support micro/nanosecond timers
	too, but there are even ones which support 2sec granularity
	(DOS FAT).

	The VFS layer carries only time_t object for files, so even
	if FS supplies finer granularity, you can't get it thru the
	VFS..

> Cheers, 
> Alex
> -- 

/Matti Aarnio <[e-mail]>