Paul D. Smith wrote:

> Another thing you can do is write a little test program (you'll have to
> use C as I don't think perl, etc. support this field either) that shows
> the values of st_mtime and st_mtim.tv_nsec...returned by stat(2), then
> run it on a file, and then on a copy created with "cp -p", and see what
> the nanosecond field shows.

I did this and confirmed that cp -p does not preserve the nanosecond
field in the copy.

Perhaps a caveat in the make docs would appropriate, as this is
liable to come up for someone else on some other host.

Thanks for your prompt responses and great help!

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Darren Hiebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
XonTech, Inc.  (256) 971-2977

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