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Re: yaccvpath.test
- To: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu dot org>
- Subject: Re: yaccvpath.test
- From: "Derek R. Price" <derek dot price at openavenue dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:37:33 -0500
- CC: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g at lrde dot epita dot fr>, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, automake at gnu dot org
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Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Some unices (including GNU/Linux) are not very precise with respect to the
> timestamps. It's likely that parse.c and the new parse.y are created in
> the same second, so parse.c will appear to be up-to-date. Adding "sleep
> 3" (I have no idea what would be a minimal safe time) before the new
CVS uses a single second sleep to guarentee timestamps change cross-platform
and we don't see bug reports about it. Only ocassionaly complaints that
scripts which invoke CVS many times take too long.
Derek
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