From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:13:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Message-ID: <20060119221346.GC3601@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vr774dqjo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Thu, Jan 19, 2006 19:24:27 +0100:
> 
> > 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)
> 
> So the verdict is to take your patch but wait for three seconds?
> I still have mild aversion about $SECONDS though...
> 

Maybe just wait for 3 (three) seconds? It should guarantee the change
in mtime.