>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:52:00 +0000 (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> That's a great explanation (thanks, I now know the details to the >> degree I'd be interested), but what was asked for was examples of >> breakage, aka actual bugs.
> Why? You can easily look and see that it's broken. Only for a suitable definition of "broken". > Examples will merely be dismissed as one-off cases that can be > worked around, or as relying upon a string of coincidences that will > "obviously" never really happen, right up until they do, at which > point they'll be dismissed with a WORKSFORME. Real examples would be issues like bugs 83877 [1] or 263387 [2]. Nothing that could be easily dismissed or worked around. Both issues are fixed with Portage since a long time. I don't know of any example where non-preservation of nanosecond timestamps would cause problems. > What you have is a proof that it's broken, which is far better than > an example. So we have a proven theorem, but unfortunately the cases where it is applicable form an empty set. ;-) Ulrich [1] <http://bugs.gentoo.org/83877#c36> [2] <http://bugs.gentoo.org/263387>
