From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:18:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Message-ID: <20060119051848.GA8121@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vvewi2typ.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:41:34PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>>Probably another one windows quirk, or just the moon phases, but I have
>>to make damn sure it sleeps long enough.
>
>IIRC, DOS file timestamps have 2 seconds granularity, so sleeping for
>one second might not be enough to begin with.  Also I run my cygwin
>test on sufficiently slow machine, so that may explain why I have not
>notice the problem ;-).

Cygwin really does sleep a second if you tell it to, but on FAT
filesystems, you're right, the granularity something like 2 seconds.

cgf