Re: trivial yet very serious bug, suggestions welcome

[Regarding writing a timestamp epsilon in the future:]
> Right. The suggestion just moves the time point, but doesn't really
> solve the underlying issue.

I don't think it even moves the time point.

>> Touching the checked out files so that their last modified time is
>> 1s in the past is another solution.

> You would then have a bunch of false hits, need to checksum the
> files, and then update the timestamps to avoid future false hits. I
> like the delay idea much better.

Eh? I must not have been clear. You:

  Write the file
  Adjust the mod time of the file down by 1s
  Record the decremented mod time

No false hits and no extra checksumming. But it's still a lie, and
could cause problems in some very high-speed situations. The delay
idea is more correct, though it is also performance-limiting.
(Admittedly, the cases where it causes a serious performance problem
are probably also the situations where it's dangerous to lie about
timestamps.)

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:46 2006