From: A Large Angry SCM <gitzilla@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:01:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Round-down years in "years+months" relative date view
Message-ID: <4A9853B8.2090709@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090828171552.GA6821@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:00:59PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 17:02, Jeff King<peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>> But that's the point: you can't do that without a race condition. Your
>>> test gets a sense of the current time, then runs git, which checks the
>>> current time again. How many seconds elapsed between the two checks?
>> How _many_ do you need?
> 
> I don't understand what you're trying to say. My point is that if you
> are checking results to a one-second precision, you need to know whether
> zero seconds elapsed, or one second, or two seconds, or whatever to get
> a consistent result.

To no-one in particular, Gitzilla mumbles "To do this right(tm) would 
probably require LD_PRELOAD magic with a environment variable invocation.