On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Here's a general update on this bug report to -current. It took all day
> but I was finally able to reproduce Andrew's bug.
>
> You guys are going to *love* this.
>
> NFS uses the kernel 'boottime' structure to generate its version id.
> Now normally you might believe that this structure, once set, will
> never change. The authors of NFS certainly make that assumption!
>
> No such luck. If you happen to be running, oh, xntpd for example,
> the kernel adjusts the boottime structure to take into account time
> changes, including PLL changes so, in fact, the boottime structure
> can change quite often - once each tick, in fact.
Nice catch, Matt.
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