RE: File list hash not updated (FAT32 problem)

[Doug Shea]

        I see. Does that mean that a well-placed "sleep" command somewhere in the makefile might make it work? Say, after creating those files, hang out for a bit to let the timestamp become sane, and then proceed?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:14 AM
> To: Doug Shea
> Cc: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: RE: File list hash not updated (FAT32 problem)
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> %% Doug Shea <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ds> An update to this... I believe I've found the problem:
> it doesn't
>   ds> work when run on files in a FAT32 filesystem.
>
> FAT32 has a bogus feature: timestamps have only 2 second (or
> was it 3?)
> granularity, not 1 second.  There is some code to deal with
> that in the
> DOS port but I think it hasn't been properly translated into
> the Windows
> port, for precisely this reason: in Windows we don't know whether the
> filesystem is FAT or NTFS.
>
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