assert(ts);
if (stat(path, &st) >= 0) {
- /* Is the timestamp file already newer than the OS? If so, there's nothing to do. */
- if (st.st_mtim.tv_sec > ts->tv_sec ||
- (st.st_mtim.tv_sec == ts->tv_sec && st.st_mtim.tv_nsec >= ts->tv_nsec))
+ /* Is the timestamp file already newer than the OS? If
+ * so, there's nothing to do. We ignore the nanosecond
+ * component of the timestamp, since some file systems
+ * do not support any better accuracy than 1s and we
+ * have no way to identify the accuracy
+ * available. Most notably ext4 on small disks (where
+ * 128 byte inodes are used) does not support better
+ * accuracy than 1s. */
+ if (st.st_mtim.tv_sec > ts->tv_sec)
return 0;
/* It is older? Then let's update it */