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From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mk (from plan9ports) modification time resolution issue?
Date: Fri,  7 Jan 2011 11:51:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikEqb08gAGnkHbC0XosnOyqi==vRZVgQ1hpftVx@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40711c3657e4203ed90a91ab770b3380@plug.quanstro.net>

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:25, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> the code has its reasons.  from mk.c:/^outofdate
>
>                /*
>                 * Treat equal times as out-of-date.
>                 * It's a race, and the safer option is to do
>                 * extra building rather than not enough.
>                 */
>                return node->time <= arc->n->time;
>
> - erik


    :) I've kind of feared that this is the reason... :)

    But still how do people handle the issue?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-07  9:13 Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-07  9:25 ` erik quanstrom
2011-01-07  9:51   ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun [this message]
2011-01-07 10:40     ` Henning Schild
2011-01-13 19:36       ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun
2011-01-18 16:28         ` Russ Cox
2011-01-18 18:24           ` Ciprian Dorin Craciun

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