From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49373 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: maildir in Gnus vs. clock corrections and PID recycling Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:08:44 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20030119234210.GA8374@merlin.emma.line.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043021328 19011 80.91.224.249 (20 Jan 2003 00:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18aPUc-0004wN-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 01:08:46 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18aPUr-0003SS-00; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:09:01 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:09:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA22018 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:09:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 85998 invoked by alias); 20 Jan 2003 00:08:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 85993 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2003 00:08:45 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (@129.22.96.25) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 20 Jan 2003 00:08:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13808 invoked by uid 500); 20 Jan 2003 00:09:06 -0000 Original-To: Matthias Andree , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <20030119234210.GA8374@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:42:10 +0100") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Andree , ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49373 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49373 Matthias Andree 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