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Date:      Sat, 24 Dec 1994 08:42:36 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        David Dawes <dawes@physics.su.oz.au>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mdavis@io.cts.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mark@grunt.grondar.za
Subject:   Re: A lighter sup -v? 
Message-ID:  <199412240642.IAA01245@grunt.grondar.za>

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> >No, actually not.  It means "I checked the file and the dates didn't
> >match, even if the contents did, so I'm stamping it again and
> >recording the fact in my sup logs."  In most stable situations, you
> >shouldn't even see that most of the time!
> 
> It means that the ctime of the file is more recent that the previous
> sup date, but the mtimes are the same.  The actual file contents (and
> file size) are not checked.  A common cause of these updates is if the
> sup server's collection has been restored from a backup, or moved to a
> different filesystem, etc.

BIG bummer, this. Since freefall's disk bounced, I have been
_continuously_ supping. 95% Of this was "updating". Time now for SUP2?
(I am in South Africa, and my link to the Internet is a 2-wire leased
line with 14400 baud modems - ok for general work, LOUSY for bulk
movements)

M

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Mark Murray
46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
+27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200



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