Linux 2.6 nanosecond time stamp weirdness breaks GCC build
Kelley Cook
kcook34@ford.com
Thu Apr 1 19:49:00 GMT 2004
> Unfortunately, while Linux now has sub-second time stamps,
> those cannot actually be *stored* on disk when using the ext3
> file system (because the on-disk format has no space). This
> has the rather curious effect that while the inode is still
> held in Linux's inode cache, the time stamp will retain its
> sub-second component, but once the inode was dropped from the
> inode cache and later re-read from disk, the sub-second part
> will be truncated to zero.
For what its worth, problems such as this caused ".LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME"
to be introduced into make 3.80.
Kelley Cook
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