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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:13:57
Message-Id: 20091125221327.324e11fb@snowcone
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000 (UTC)
2 Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
3 > That's a great explanation (thanks, I now know the details to the
4 > degree I'd be interested), but what was asked for was examples of
5 > breakage, aka actual bugs.
6
7 Why? You can easily look and see that it's broken. Examples will merely
8 be dismissed as one-off cases that can be worked around, or as relying
9 upon a string of coincidences that will "obviously" never really
10 happen, right up until they do, at which point they'll be dismissed
11 with a WORKSFORME. What you have is a proof that it's broken, which is
12 far better than an example.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] mtime preservation Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: mtime preservation Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>