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From: "Ben Lynn" <benlynn@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Daniel Barkalow" <barkalow@iabervon.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git bugs
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:24:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <832adb090806101724k6199694ftbbc6ed151489a6e3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwskwbz63.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

That is problematic. How do I figure out what the filesystem thinks is
the current time? I could touch some file and read its mtime, but I
want a shortcut.

Are there any guarantees of any kind? e.g. is the filesystem current
time at least never ahead of the system time?

-Ben

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Ben Lynn" <benlynn@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... I'm making the same
>> assumptions, i.e. files are not touched while they're being indexed.
>
> Actually you are making another assumption that is somewhat worrysome.
>
> The filesystem clock and time(2) clock can be skewed and comparing a
> timestamp you obtain from lstat(2) and time(2) might not give you any
> meaningful information.  That is why I made this codepath without using
> time(2) when I did the racy-git work.
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10  8:41 git bugs Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 16:58 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-06-10 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 18:45   ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 20:06     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-10 23:09       ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-10 23:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11  0:02           ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11  0:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11  0:24               ` Ben Lynn [this message]
2008-06-11  0:53                 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 12:46                 ` Stephen R. van den Berg
2008-06-12  6:51                   ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11  1:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11  2:04               ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11  2:12                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11  2:31                   ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11  2:39                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11  5:58                       ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11  6:18                         ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 14:54                           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 17:52                             ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:10                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 18:48                                 ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 18:53                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-11 20:57                                     ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-11 21:50                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-11 14:52                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-12 20:06   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-13 10:10   ` Jeff King
2008-06-13 23:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-14  6:25       ` Jeff King
2008-06-12  3:17 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-06-12  6:46   ` Ben Lynn
2008-06-12  7:12   ` Johannes Schindelin
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2017-02-23 20:27 Sean Hunt
2017-02-24 16:52 ` Johannes Schindelin

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