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[PATCH] * NEWS: Say that 6.12 preserved ns-resolution timestamps.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Say that 6.12 preserved ns-resolution timestamps.
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:35:43 -0700
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I needed to know when cp -p started preserving timestamps
to ns resolution and found that there was no NEWS item for
that, so I added one:

---
 NEWS |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 291ce13..c3aaa3d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1130,6 +1130,12 @@
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable]
 
+** New features
+
+  cp, install, mv, and touch now preserve nanosecond resolution on
+  file timestamps, on platforms that have the 'utimensat' and
+  'futimens' system calls.
+
 ** Bug fixes
 
   chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address




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