Proposal: better timestamp granularity for modificationTime/setFileTimes in System.Posix.Files[.ByteString]

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Marios Titas <redneb8888 at gmail.com> wrote:

> System.Posix.Files[.ByteString] contains the following functions
> related to file times: accessTime, modificationTime, statusChangeTime,
> setFileTimes.
> All of these functions offer granularity of one second. Modern posix
> systems support newer functions (such as utimes, utimensat) that offer
> better granularity (up to 1 nanosecond).
>

Be aware that how these are provided varies:  Solaris, FreeBSD, and Linux
use different extensions and different types to represent them.

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