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Re: CVS thinks a file is up-to-date even after it's modified


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: CVS thinks a file is up-to-date even after it's modified
Date: 31 Aug 2001 23:37:34 +0100
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address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:

> so my guess is that your working directory is on a DOS-like
> filesystem.  If so, you should add a 1 second sleep to your script
> to ensure that the file's timestamp gets updated.

MS-DOS filesystems have a two second granularity (i.e. the least
significant field in the modification time is a 5-bit counter, in
units of 2s -- which means that you can indeed have a file with a
modtime of hh:mm:60 as well as hh:mm:00).

Perhaps "sleep 2" then.

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James Youngman
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