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Mtime first is unreliable on modern (fast) machines, you can edit a file twice in a single second. I think bazel has a daemon watch for file changes, but I'm no

Mtime first is unreliable on modern (fast) machines, you can edit a file twice in a single second. I think bazel has a daemon watch for file changes, but I'm not certain of that.

simoncion 4y ago
ext4, btrfs, XFS all use nanosecond time resolution.
- jpollock 4y ago
  Think remote file system where a different node is providing the mtime, so it can have substantial diffs between nodes.
- deleted 4y ago
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