From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:16:58 -0500 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <3e1e9e6fbfa856a01013a2f51b8d244f@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0230812-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I think this is caused because the time slice is too short and the system > can't tell the build times apart. Even though main clearly came after main.8 > the system sees them as the same time. Of course this can cause mk to > dothe link again unnecessarily if > mk is called again. This is what is happening to me. Each time I mk it > builds less. > > Perhaps this is a problem with 9port under VMware. Perhaps, in certain > environments, the time slices are too big. > > Any experience or thoughts on the matter are greatly appreciated. you are correct. this is all about time resolution. plan 9 times are recorded in 1s resolution, and unless you have a very slow processor, or a very big program, building & linking a program can take less than 1s. - erik