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

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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

Thanks.  FYI, any time we update NEWS for
a release older than the latest (in-progress),
we should run "make update-NEWS-hash".
Otherwise, "make syntax-check" fails.
I pushed this:

>From e24c711cbc581168e670b3fd41580c6588d439a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:23:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] maint: accommodate old-NEWS update

* cfg.mk (old_NEWS_hash): Update, to accommodate 6.12 addition.
Without this change, "make syntax-check" would fail.
---
 cfg.mk |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index d36f7c8..2111956 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,gnulib,bison
 # Now that we have better tests, make this the default.
 export VERBOSE = yes

-old_NEWS_hash = 7b32bb1296f27ceca68b3a20956cb1b8
+old_NEWS_hash = d491296a7e0e2269b2b96dc4bd5f77a8

 # Add an exemption for sc_makefile_at_at_check.
 _makefile_at_at_check_exceptions = ' && !/^cu_install_program =/'
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