From owner-cvs-all Wed Aug 23 10:48:51 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E730037B422; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 10:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 4D9099B2D; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:48:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:48:45 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Nate Williams Cc: Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000823184845.D13773@pavilion.net> References: <20000814003636.A74639@pavilion.net> <200008140753.AAA08038@netplex.com.au> <20000819124824.E88550@lucifer.bart.nl> <20000822161835.B807@dragon.nuxi.com> <20000823091714.D650@pavilion.net> <200008231648.KAA02382@billy-club.village.org> <200008231704.LAA02617@billy-club.village.org> <200008231707.LAA12343@nomad.yogotech.com> <20000823184240.B13773@pavilion.net> <200008231743.LAA13050@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008231743.LAA13050@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:43:14AM -0600 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message