/* Check if filesystem timestamps are consistent with the system time. Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #define TEMPLATE "ckmtime.XXXXXX" #define BILLION 1000000000 /* Some filesystems can slightly offset the timestamps of newly created files. To compensate for it, tar testsuite waits at least 1 second before creating next level of incremental backups. However, NFS mounts can offset the timestamps by bigger amounts. This program returns with success (0) if a newly created file is assigned mtime matching the system time to the nearest second. */ int main (int argc, char **argv) { int fd; char name[sizeof(TEMPLATE)]; struct stat st; struct timespec ts, td; double diff; gettime (&ts); strcpy (name, TEMPLATE); umask (077); fd = mkstemp (name); assert (fd != -1); unlink (name); assert (fstat (fd, &st) == 0); close (fd); td = timespec_sub (get_stat_mtime (&st), ts); diff = td.tv_sec * BILLION + td.tv_nsec; if (diff < 0) diff = - diff; if (diff / BILLION >= 1) { fprintf (stderr, "file timestamp unreliable\n"); return 1; } return 0; }