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Re: [coreutils] [PATCH 1/2] stat: support printing birthtime


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [coreutils] [PATCH 1/2] stat: support printing birthtime
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:35:46 -0600
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On 10/01/2010 09:22 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
+case $(stat --format %x a) in
+  *.000000000*) sleep 2;; # worst case file system is FAT
+  *) # FIXME: sleep .1 would be sufficient if %X showed nanoseconds
+ sleep 1;; # should be adequate for any system with subsecond resolution
+esac

We try hard to avoid sleeping in the common case.
Any reason not to do what the FIXME suggests?

      case $(stat --format %X a) in
        *.000000000) sleep 1;;

You need two seconds for FAT.

Yes.  FAT is already handled.
The case statement I suggested was intended to replace the "sleep 1" in
the default case (handling the FIXME) above, not to replace the existing
case statement.

I think you mis-parsed my FIXME conmment in patch 1/2. The point is that prior to either patch, %X lacks nanoseconds altogether (that is, you will never match *.00000000 or even *.[0-9]* until after patch 2). Which is why patch 2/2 deletes the FIXME, and goes with sleep .1, because %X is fixed to add nanoseconds. No second case statement needed.

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