From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>,
"Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jason Sewall <jasonsewall@gmail.com>,
raa.lkml@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a 1-second sleep to git-cvsexportcommit test
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:35:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707250835.21181.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707241144490.3607@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tuesday 2007 July 24, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So if you sleep for one second, the filesystem times will update by one
> second, but if you try to *synchronize* to exactly one second, it's not at
> all certain that the *filesystem* clock will be synchronized to the same
> second! Time skew is simply a fact of life.
I think it's even worse; if memory serves one of the Windows file systems
(spit) only stores times to a two-second resolution. So half the time,
waiting for one second won't change the time stamp _at all_.
Andy
--
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-25 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-22 19:41 Test #7 in t9200-git-cvsexportcommit fails Jason Sewall
2007-07-22 20:21 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-22 20:49 ` Jason Sewall
2007-07-22 21:42 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-22 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-23 3:59 ` [PATCH] Add a 1-second sleep to git-cvsexportcommit test Jason Sewall
2007-07-23 4:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-23 7:55 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-24 0:23 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 8:11 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-24 8:33 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 8:38 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
2007-07-24 9:34 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 10:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-24 12:57 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 15:31 ` Jason Sewall
2007-07-24 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-24 22:56 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-07-24 23:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-25 7:35 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-07-25 7:43 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
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