From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] more time amusement under vmware
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 05:48:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60908040548q4381bed7off8e967958781179@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370908032256p22aba5efpa9755c4a13c654a2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> the time problem i was having before (fast clock) had seemed to be
> irreproducible. however just now, i noticed the following
> odd behaviour:
>
> fiddle% date -u
> Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 1970
> fiddle% cat /dev/time
> 0 0 0
> 1 fiddle%
> fiddle% # wait a few seconds
> fiddle% cat /dev/time
> 0 0 0
> 1 fiddle%
>
> the clock is completely stopped!
> (although sleep doesn't sleep forever - sleep 10 sleeps
> for about 3.43 seconds, so *something* has a concept of time)
>
> most odd.
>
>
Yeah.. :-( Odd and crappy. I can't figure out why this would happen.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-04 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-04 5:56 roger peppe
2009-08-04 12:48 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2009-08-04 12:54 ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-04 13:36 ` roger peppe
2009-08-04 13:46 ` roger peppe
2009-08-04 15:20 ` ron minnich
2009-08-04 15:20 ` ron minnich
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