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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:48:45 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <20000823184845.D13773@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <200008231743.LAA13050@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:43:14AM -0600
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:43:14AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> 
> > If we have "utime/user" we probably don't.  Utime (by which I mean
> > any format with a resolution of a second) on it's own probably isn't
> > sufficient without a lock and a sub increment counter (although a byte
> > from /dev/urandom may work..... only joking! :)
> 
> Actually, given the updates from CVS, I think a utime counter is quite
> adequate.  I don't think we're pushing multiple updates/sec at this
> point.
> 

Multiple updates/sec no - but can you guarantee that in any given second
there won't be two commits.  If you can't then we should use an increment
counter, or not bother (Or am I being too exacting here?).

Joe
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