On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:00:59PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 17:02, Jeff King<peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But that's the point: you can't do that without a race condition. Your > > test gets a sense of the current time, then runs git, which checks the > > current time again. How many seconds elapsed between the two checks? > > How _many_ do you need? I don't understand what you're trying to say. My point is that if you are checking results to a one-second precision, you need to know whether zero seconds elapsed, or one second, or two seconds, or whatever to get a consistent result. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html