Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:43:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <200008231743.LAA13050@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20000823184240.B13773@pavilion.net> References: <200008231651.KAA12190@nomad.yogotech.com> <200008231604.KAA11402@nomad.yogotech.com> <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>
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> > > Also, I don't see a functional difference between DATE-NUMBER and just > > > NUMBER, especially since it isn't in the CVS tree. However, a GMT > > > date down to the second as a change number id, then that would make > > > checking out from CVS to that point possible. > > > > That would be cool. Actually, a GMT date would be adequate for me, > > instead of using a number, since that makes things really easy from a > > CVS point of view. I'd actually prefer that to a number, for the > > reasons mentioned. > > If we had an incrementing number we need locking and a counter file. Agreed. > 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. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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