Re: [offtopic] Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Larry Jones]

Mitch Davis writes:
> 
> ObCVS: Someone recently said that CVS would sleep until the
> clock had ticked to the next second.  Why is this sleep
> necessary?  What operations would it speed up if it were
> not necessary to do this sleep?

The sleep is necessary to ensure that any modification of a file will
result in a change to its timestamp.  It only happens when a cvs command
that set file timestamps is finished, and it only sleeps until one
second has passed since the last timestamp, so it doesn't have a
significant impact (and it may not even sleep at all).

-Larry Jones

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