=>From: Matthew Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=>...
=>On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, dave madden wrote:
=>>Then I wrote that gettimeofday() program and saw the
=>>problem in all its gory, and finally I hacked my kernel to prevent
=>>gettimeofday from returning an earlier time. Of course, I didn't
=>>prevent time from increasing, and I still get occasional crashes when
=>>the clock starts racing forward, but I don't know what triggers it.
=>
=>Dave,
=> Would it be possible for you to keep it from increasing "too
=> much" in any one jump? This would at least stop the X screensaver
=> from coming on, and perhaps stop your crashes.
Certainly it'd be possible, and if I was still having bad crashes, I'd
probably do it. However, the hacks I have in now are clearly the
Wrong Way to address the problem, and restricting the forward movement
of the clock would be more of the same. Besides, if I completely
stopped the crashes, I wouldn't have anything to remind me that I
really oughta dig in and fix the problem the right way :-)
d.
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