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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:10:26
Message-Id: pan.2009.11.26.05.07.46@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:45 +0100 as excerpted:
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3 > Real examples would be issues like bugs 83877 [1] or 263387 [2]. Nothing
4 > that could be easily dismissed or worked around. Both issues are fixed
5 > with Portage since a long time.
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7 Thanks.
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9 > I don't know of any example where non-preservation of nanosecond
10 > timestamps would cause problems.
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12 That's really what I was hoping for, a bug where the nanosecond times
13 thing made a difference. But Ciaran does have a point about such things
14 being potentially closed as WORKSFORME or the like, as I've seen that in
15 other cases, see my just earlier post.
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19 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
20 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman