[Haskell-cafe] Behaviour of System.Directory.getModificationTime

[Thomas Schilling]

Yes, modification times are reported in seconds, so you'll have to
wait on average 0.5s for a file change to be visible via the
modification date.  Due to buffers and filesystem optimisations it
might even take longer.

On 16 December 2010 16:50, Arnaud Bailly <arnaud.oqube at gmail.com> wrote:
> actually, IRL the code works as expected. Might it be possible that
> the speed of test execution is greater than the granularity of the
> system's modification timestamp?
>
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