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author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-09-09 16:17:47 (GMT) |
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committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-09-09 16:17:47 (GMT) |
commit | a32c99412914058f47bc50336c7c83d38331e880 (patch) | |
tree | 26c6f7940b5b851ec50b75599e79d8890332bfe1 /Doc/lib | |
parent | 94717ed1d4e8c361656cfdfa16ccc3364073cde8 (diff) | |
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Always generate floats for stat_result; fix configure test.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index b1adc1b..5cbeeeb 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -826,6 +826,10 @@ the \ctype{stat} structure, namely: \member{st_ctime} (time of most recent content modification or metadata change). +\versionchanged [The time values are floats, measuring + seconds. Fractions of a second may be reported if the system + supports that]{2.3} + On some Unix systems (such as Linux), the following attributes may also be available: \member{st_blocks} (number of blocks allocated for file), @@ -856,12 +860,7 @@ order \member{st_atime}, \member{st_mtime}, \member{st_ctime}. -More items may be added at the end by some implementations. Note that -on the Mac OS, the time values are floating point values, like all -time values on the Mac OS. -\versionchanged -[On other systems, the values are floats if the system reports - fractions of a second]{2.3} +More items may be added at the end by some implementations. The standard module \refmodule{stat}\refstmodindex{stat} defines functions and constants that are useful for extracting information from a \ctype{stat} structure. |