From: Ted Bullock <tbullock@comlore.com>
Subject: Re: vi struggling to save commit messages
To: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 13:54:24 -0700


On 2023-03-08 1:24 p.m., Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 13:19:39 -0700, Ted Bullock wrote:
> 
>> I can see why it triggers, it's comparing identical timestamps, not
>> relative. This is inconsistent with the error text too which explicitly
>> says "file modified more recently than this copy".
>>
>> timespeccmp(&sb.st_mtim, &ep->mtim, !=)
>>
>> should be
>>
>> timespeccmp(&sb.st_mtim, &ep->mtim, <=)
> 
> Are you saying that the current mtime is _older_ than the original?
> Is this just a matter of the nsec portion being truncated?
> 
>  - todd

Here is a sample of the actual numbers, it's not a truncation.

sb.st_mtim.tv_sec: 1678308226, sb.st_mtim.tv_nsec: 125222348
ep->mtim.tv_sec: 1678308226, ep->mtim.tv_nsec: 55250221

-- 
Ted Bullock <tbullock@comlore.com>