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Re: kern/31430: ptyfs isn't getting mtime right

Subject: Re: kern/31430: ptyfs isn't getting mtime right
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:02:01 +0000 UTC
The following reply was made to PR kern/31430; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: simonb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: christos@xxxxxxxxxx, gnats-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx,
        kern-bug-people@xxxxxxxxxx, gnats-admin@xxxxxxxxxx,
        netbsd-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: kern/31430: ptyfs isn't getting mtime right 
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:00:50 +0900

 > The patch below is a result of a discussion off-line with Christos.
 > The granularity of the mtime doesn't need to be down to the nanosecond
 > - using the kernel "time" variable (which is updated on each
 > hardclock call) saves a potentially relatively expensive call to
 > microtime/nanotime for each write, and is more than accurate enough to
 > track pty idle times.
 
 it isn't good to mix "time" and nanotime
 because it can make timestamps go backward sometimes.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi
 

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