[PATCH 1 of 2] util: disable floating point stat times (issue4836)

[Sean Farley]

Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 13:32 -0500, timeless wrote:
>> > +# disable Python's problematic floating point timestamps
>> > (issue4836)
>> > +# (Python hypocritically says you shouldn't change this behavior
>> > in
>> > +# libraries, and sure enough Mercurial is not a library.)
>> 
>> Presumably this is because it's neither threadsafe (i.e. it's process
>> global, not per-thread), nor compatible w/ multiple libraries with
>> different opinions about the behavior. i.e. if one library needs it
>> off and one library needs it on, the two libraries will break
>> each-other horribly.
>
> It's obviously a bad idea for libraries to change this because programs
> don't expect it to change. But Python's os module is itself a library,
> so they're doing exactly what they tell people not to do.
>
> (Admittedly, on a scale of compatibility breakage from 0 to 3000 this
> doesn't rate very high.)

Even for the wsgi apps?