From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: maildir in Gnus vs. clock corrections and PID recycling
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:08:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yxgadi5.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030119234210.GA8374@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:42:10 +0100")
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Paul Jarc schrieb am Sonntag, den 19. Januar 2003:
>> Stepping a clock backwards produces so many problems that it is better
>> to ignore those problems, run the clock monotonically, and find a
>> different way to deal with any problems that stepping backwards was
>> supposed to solve.
>
> This would mean rebooting systems when the clocks are fast and cannot be
> just slowed reasonably
No. It means the clock would be run slow *all the time*, to keep it
from getting ahead in the first place. This is how clockspeed works.
> It'd be fine with me if the program would just complain, the ultime
> goal is avoiding EVER overwriting a file.
I'll probably add that too.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 0:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-19 0:57 Matthias Andree
2003-01-19 23:14 ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-19 23:42 ` Matthias Andree
2003-01-20 0:08 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2003-01-20 0:40 ` Matthias Andree
2003-01-22 23:41 ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-23 12:33 ` Matthias Andree
2003-01-20 0:58 ` Paul Jarc
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