From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 7 12:19:43 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D03614D2C; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29373; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16447; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA16146; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199904071917.MAA16146@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:17:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: Nick Sayer "cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c" (Apr 7, 9:36am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Nick Sayer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Apr 7, 9:36am, Nick Sayer wrote: } Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c } We still need to decide on an algorithm to clamp positive adjustments. } As it stands, it is possible to achieve arbitrary negative adjustments } by "wrapping" time around. Limit positive steps to MIN(1 second, elapsed time since last postive step). At worst the clock could be made to run at 2x normal speed. --- Truck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message