From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a 1-second sleep to git-cvsexportcommit test Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:43:31 +0200 Message-ID: <46A6FF23.8050704@trolltech.com> References: <7vk5ssqdy0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <200707241134.31950.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <200707250835.21181.andyparkins@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig96BA320FDDB8095CBD01B216" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Robin Rosenberg , Simon 'corecode' Schubert , Junio C Hamano , Jason Sewall , raa.lkml@gmail.com To: Andy Parkins X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 09:43:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDbWP-0004TT-0h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:43:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758347AbXGYHm5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:42:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754870AbXGYHm4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:42:56 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no ([62.70.27.18]:34166 "EHLO esparsett.troll.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752599AbXGYHmz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:42:55 -0400 Received: from esparsett.troll.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EDEE741BD; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.3.4.215] (error.troll.no [10.3.4.215]) by esparsett.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5CC741AE; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:54 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070716 Thunderbird/2.0.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <200707250835.21181.andyparkins@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEXU1NTAwMABAQGsrKyE hIQwMDAEBAS8hGUfAAACQUlEQVQ4jV2TS47cMAxEKSDZW1CfwMB4PYLkrKchsveJRR2gEen+R0hR 9vziBmahhyqSRQ4NfF1FmIv3dH4usNAGoFprBVguQJmZ1nX0XiHgEukTCK3TairiZeXcVGzmZIoU 3738pehdVbiU9KFgMQWeZ1fpHZDfRS4rPb3eQVaZChGx4ikt5GDkAZQ2KKohzjklno4+iJpVhxka ZjSpasJ4gdGaEQMWTMjRa5uTqza0XDJjzhIdzGTMrqoopimoIPCKZtVOq265MAXpMLXycmVl2Y8C oE1FkT/faKauOjYoHJyOxHfvixjowvI0xZJsKykubgLYzuJMdBO+L86TjxfQ9hz9jpSudbnXXzRm tor5i3MUONpOfARAhlWbzWF7OhP2eSeEW9HUBNiHOxUM8HLWHhUAj3NZNsdqRZpNA+DJ+XlX+Qc9 Z4ZjHX8LRUzgTBBef84NQoCMOcS0+BMsj3klbTzRri03ugXr9em1GfgzDAyEn4J3fvFI5YwdTrYu 1ntAY1h5ysM2OMGm+cBOocCXHisAHu2PagnLghoG2krz8bzsA4fj7KxCGk+63jt+DDCtYjbFNkHD nRwpRqsQYx5WYzsbm/eBfn0I4TbOGvMWqhQAiEDzNs4apumCI0x2OyHtY7uAlZff/sanbH9+AGT1 KOEmUlJISdYPgEgehw+cTZEf6xeFyoEjCPgv+A62KhW3EOy9PL7WmCBMRWmfYN0OqW9krzl/Ay91 75HMqfDtP8UFckFUX2rwrm/kTVB2gH+hdu4avZVCuAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig96BA320FDDB8095CBD01B216 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Andy Parkins said the following on 25.07.2007 09:35: > On Tuesday 2007 July 24, Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 >> So if you sleep for one second, the filesystem times will update by on= e >> second, but if you try to *synchronize* to exactly one second, it's no= t at >> all certain that the *filesystem* clock will be synchronized to the sa= me >> second! Time skew is simply a fact of life. >=20 > I think it's even worse; if memory serves one of the Windows file syste= ms=20 > (spit) only stores times to a two-second resolution. So half the time,= =20 > waiting for one second won't change the time stamp _at all_. "File time stamps on FAT drives are rounded to the nearest two seconds=20 (even number) when the file is written to the drive. The file time=20 stamps on NTFS drives are rounded to the nearest 100 nanoseconds when=20 the file is written to the drive." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/127830 --=20 =2Emarius --------------enig96BA320FDDB8095CBD01B216 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGpv8jKzzXl/njVP8RAuRzAJoCD60YKNwDK+Qf+rBwNvtrH7Ly/QCgicef USQWREz8u/N63KNwgYFFzyM= =MsvH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig96BA320FDDB8095CBD01B216--