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Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:52:29 +0100
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Junio C Hamano, Wed, Jan 18, 2006 18:00:30 +0100:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > And where does the time lag (required for the test) come from now?
> 
> The point of the change is that it avoids to depend on the time
> lag.  The test is to make sure we catch dirty index; instead of
> timestamp difference it now uses i-num difference for that.
> 

this is probable unsafe too: not all systems export inodes
(the recent cygwin breakage comes to mind).