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| -rw-r--r-- | pym/portage/__init__.py | 3 |
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diff --git a/pym/portage/__init__.py b/pym/portage/__init__.py index 35ce95329..8ebcddba2 100644 --- a/pym/portage/__init__.py +++ b/pym/portage/__init__.py @@ -7566,6 +7566,9 @@ def movefile(src, dest, newmtime=None, sstat=None, mysettings=None, 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: |