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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] more time amusement under vmware
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2009 08:54:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65dceb870025dce376745cdfc6de4518@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <df49a7370908032256p22aba5efpa9755c4a13c654a2@mail.gmail.com>

> 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%

what's especially wrong about this is that /bin/time is supposed
to have 4 fields:

; cat /dev/time;echo
 1249390400   1249390400255704909     10724776694552845            2000102324
;

do you have something funny bound on /dev?

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 12:54 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
2009-08-04 12:54 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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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