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Re: My first stumper ...


From: Laine Stump
Subject: Re: My first stumper ...
Date: 18 Jan 2001 17:46:54 -0500
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address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:

> CVS tries to avoid this problem by sleeping until the time is later than
> the timestamp of the most recent file before it exits.  This works
> perfectly on Unix-like systems where file timestamps have the same
> granularity as time() does.  Unfortunately, the FAT filesystem (and
> presumably NTFS as well) has a timestamp granularity of two seconds
> whereas time()'s granularity is only one second, so there's a one second
> window for error.  I've thought about changing it to sleep until at
> least two seconds have elapsed, but I'm not sure that's such a good idea
> -- it's not necessary on Unix and it may not be sufficient for some
> other obscure system.

I agree.

> > I don't know if there's any practical way to get around this, other
> > than forcing the commit with -f (that's what I did).
> 
> You can always touch the file and do a normal commit.

Except that this is in a script, and the whole idea is to make it run
as fast as possible (ie, it *still* wouldn't be "enough later" by the
time the script touched the file). I'm pretty much resigned to just
doing commit -f (unless I feel like rewriting the script to cycle between 
multiple files).



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