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Re: yaccvpath.test


From: Alexandre Oliva
Subject: Re: yaccvpath.test
Date: 02 Mar 2001 01:19:39 -0300
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On Feb 28, 2001, "Derek R. Price" <address@hidden> wrote:

> CVS uses a single second sleep to guarentee timestamps change cross-platform

IIRC, FAT filesystems can only store even second numbers.  So, in
order to be 100% safe, you'd need to sleep for 2 seconds, but a
1-second sleep should be ok on at least 50% of the cases.

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