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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:42:40 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes
Message-ID:  <20000823184240.B13773@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <200008231707.LAA12343@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:07:05AM -0600
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:07:05AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> > Both true.  And both problems today.  We won't have the TOPS-20
> > version numbering where you'd have numbers like
> > 	5.0(123)
> > 	5.1(345)
> > 	5.2(9534)
> > 	6.0(23)
> > 
> > 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.
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! :)

Joe
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