From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 19 22:48:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23523 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1635.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23504 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA00543; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:47:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 01:47:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Mike Smith cc: ac199@hwcn.org, Garance A Drosihn , joelh@gnu.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposal to not change time_t In-Reply-To: <199808192213.WAA00579@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message