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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        ac199@hwcn.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposal to not change time_t 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980820014520.392H-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199808192213.WAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > by at least one unit (255ths, 1024ths, whatever), and then only
> > resort to using duplicate times when it is forced to by benchmark
> > programs that touch 1024 files per second just for kicks?
> 
> It could simply be defeated by finding another pathalogical example.  
> Higher time resolution is the only way to fix it correctly.

Sufficiently pathalogical examples defeat static resolutions (ie.
any resolution that doesn't become finer as necessary).


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