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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:50:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c
Message-ID:  <199604010750.JAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604010045.EAA01805@astral.msk.su> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Apr 1, 96 04:45:37 am

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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote:

> Missing or corrupting or hanging on (via NFS) any of those files not
> critical, but missing/corrupting/hanging on /etc/localtime is very
> critical, because even RTC clock can be corrupted.

It just occured me (while modifying tzsetup again) that your
argumentation has one weak point: you are already screwed in your
case, since /etc/localtime covers only the very special case of a
missing `TZ' environmental variable. :-P

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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