From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:28:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Message-ID: <20060119182822.GA32022@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0601190701g2696b1a9l14f3d288875e11ab@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:01:19PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
>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