From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 2:27:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DA137B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 02:27:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (esplanaden.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9AD43FAF for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 02:27:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16ARaaW001092; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:27:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@freebsd.org) To: Bruce Evans Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries From: phk@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:51:48 +1100." <20030206193118.T72545-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:27:36 +0100 Message-ID: <1091.1044527256@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030206193118.T72545-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 23:44:08 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote: >> > >> > >2) Feb 6 01:36 (boot time) >> > >3) Feb 6 04:36 (+3 TZ future jump) >> > >> > These timestamps have been touched, and the clock has made a 3 hour >> > jump either forward or backward at some point. >> > >> > The problem is the clock jump, not DEVFS. >> >> Clock jump happens as it supposed when adjkerntz(8) corrects machine clock >> back to GMT via various CPU_* sysctl's. Could touched DEVFS stamps be >> fixed back to something useful in the same sysctl code too? > >This should be well known to devfs users. > >devfs sets at least some of the times before adjkerntz can run, and nothing >fixes them, so these times are wrong by the timezone difference. This is not any different from any other filesystem. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message