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Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 18:28 UTC
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<20060119182822.GA32022@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:01:19PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
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>On 1/19/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> By the way, if you have an access to git on cygwin with FAT,
>> could you test your patch ($SECONDS) and then i-num patch (the
>> machine with cygwin I can borrow has only NTFS) please?
>
>Works if sleep is for 2 secs (I completely forgot about that stupid
>FAT granularity!)
>st_ino is always the same (it is a hash of pathname).
>Christopher, how is that supposed to work with hardlinks? (NTFS has
>hardlinks, BTW)

There is OS support hardlinks work on NTFS/NT but not on FAT* "filesystems" or Windows 9x variants. Hardlink support on Cygwin mirrors this.

cgf
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  1. "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwinAlex Riesen, Jan 17, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
  3. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2006
  4. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
  5. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  6. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
  9. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2006
  10. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  11. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  14. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  16. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  17. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  18. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  20. Christopher FaylorJan 20, 2006
  21. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  22. Christopher FaylorJan 20, 2006

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