From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 05:32:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021028053208.A5883@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021028040637.GN1557@pimlott.net>
> > C) How would having ALL times rounded to a second be an improvement?
>
> foo.c and foo.o would both have timestamps of 0. make considers
> the target foo.o newer in this case, so will not rebuild it.
But other stuff could break because it sees mtime > gettimeofday
(strictly make could trigger a "your clock is warping" warning)
It's a tradeoff, all has some disadvantages. The simple truncation
wins here because it's the simplest (KISS)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-28 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200210251557.55202.landley@trommello.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-10-26 7:53 ` The return of the return of crunch time (2.5 merge candidate list 1.6) Andi Kleen
2002-10-26 8:13 ` Andreas Dilger
[not found] ` <20021026190906.GA20571@pimlott.net>
2002-10-27 7:01 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-27 15:20 ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-27 17:57 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 4:06 ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-28 4:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-10-28 4:09 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-28 4:30 ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-15 17:44 ` Pavel Machek
2002-11-08 22:02 ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-28 6:03 ` Andrew Pimlott
2002-10-25 20:57 Rob Landley
2002-10-26 2:42 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-27 15:11 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 0:27 ` Hans Reiser
2002-10-26 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
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