Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 1/1] freshen_file(): use NULL `times' for implicit current-time

> > The old code was setting the time based on the system time from time().
> > We've occasionally hit cases where the filesystem time and the system
> > time do not match exactly (this might be true on an NFS mount, for
> > example).
> > 
> > It's not clear to me whether utime(NULL) would be using the system or
> > filesystem time in such a case. If the former, then there's no change in
> > behavior. If the latter, I'd argue that it's probably an _improvement_,
> > since we're simulating the case that we wrote a new file with a new
> > mtime.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with kernel code, so can't say for sure. From a
> cursory look, it doesn't seem like it uses the remote server's time.
> 
> But it does seem to have a higher precision, for filesystems that
> support it.