(Dropping the austin-group list, since this email just explains context doubtless already known to that list)
On 5/4/07, Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Could you please explain why did you CC the bug-make list, and why you mention MS-DOS?
Make deals with the timestamps of files, and - I assume - needs to have some awareness of the possibility that timestamp resolution issues will give just-touched files a timestamp which is in the past, and perhaps a timestamp which is _before_ the time which was current immediately prior to the filesystem operation.
The above addition to `pathconf', when introduced, will be only supported on systems that use glibc, is that right? So MS-DOS is not relevant, even if GNU Make uses _PC_TIMESTAMP_RESOLUTION.
Glibc systems sometimes also support FAT filesystems.
Btw, the Windows epoch (on NTFS volumes) is 1601. But that probably doesn't matter, either, as glibc is not used.
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