* [gentoo-commits] portage r14905 - main/branches/2.1.7/pym/portage
@ 2009-11-27 22:38 Zac Medico (zmedico)
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From: Zac Medico (zmedico) @ 2009-11-27 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-commits
Author: zmedico
Date: 2009-11-27 22:38:41 +0000 (Fri, 27 Nov 2009)
New Revision: 14905
Modified:
main/branches/2.1.7/pym/portage/__init__.py
Log:
Add a note about lack of nanosecond precision in movefile(). (trunk r14900)
Modified: main/branches/2.1.7/pym/portage/__init__.py
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--- main/branches/2.1.7/pym/portage/__init__.py 2009-11-27 22:38:26 UTC (rev 14904)
+++ main/branches/2.1.7/pym/portage/__init__.py 2009-11-27 22:38:41 UTC (rev 14905)
@@ -7566,6 +7566,9 @@
if hardlinked:
newmtime = long(os.stat(dest).st_mtime)
else:
+ # Note: It is not possible to preserve nanosecond precision
+ # (supported in POSIX.1-2008 via utimensat) with the IEEE 754
+ # double precision float which only has a 53 bit significand.
if newmtime is not None:
os.utime(dest, (newmtime, newmtime))
else:
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