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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2012-07-11 22:39:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2012-07-11 22:39:59 +0200 |
| commit | 8cee055ec4fac00e59f19620ab06e2b30dccee3c (patch) | |
| tree | 6cd7ca1b8ce7eba1820fdbd31ee5755ed33dabe2 /open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn | |
| parent | b75e038615d51cb62c200e336e59202519db8cae (diff) | |
IRC.
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn b/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn index 513cbc73..46705047 100644 --- a/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/pfinet_vs_system_time_changes.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -58,3 +59,24 @@ IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-27: <antrik> it's really fascinating that only the pfinet on the Hurd instance where I set the date is affected, and not the pfinet in the other instance + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-06-28: + + <bddebian> great, now setting the date/time fucked my machine + <pinotree> yes, we lack a monotonic clock + <pinotree> there are select() loops that use gettimeofday to determine how + much time to wait + <pinotree> thus if the time changes (eg goes back), the calculation goes + crazy + <antrik> pinotree: didn't you implement a monotonic clock?... + <pinotree> started to + <antrik> bddebian: did it really fuck the machine? normally it only resets + TCP connections... + <pinotree> yeah, i remember such gettimeofay-based select-loops at least in + pfinet + <antrik> I don't think it's a loop. it just drops the connections, + believing they have timed out + <bddebian> antrik: Well in this case I don't know because I am at work but + it fucked me because I now cannot get to it.. :) + <antrik> bddebian: that's odd... you should be able to just log in again + IIRC |