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Date:      Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:37:57 +0530
From:      Deepak Gupta <Deepak.Gupta2@citrix.com>
To:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: sleep/select call in a thread doesn't return if system date is changed
Message-ID:  <64FB1554ABC9B44FAA773FBD6CB889C2E1CB205ADA@BANPMAILBOX01.citrite.net>
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From: Deepak Gupta
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:37 AM
To: 'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org.'
Subject: sleep/select call in a thread doesn't return if system date is cha=
nged

I have already checked these two very old messages from 2005 archive
                http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-Feb=
ruary/010498.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-February/010482.htm=
l

but I'm surprised to see the same behavior still after 6 years in 6.3 relea=
se. Has anybody else also faced this anomaly?

Following is output of "uname -a" on my system
                "FreeBSD Freebsd_31.203 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0:=
 Wed Jan 16 01:43:02 UTC 2008     root@palmer.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/=
src/sys/SMP<mailto:root@palmer.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP>  a=
md64"

Following is the source code I'm testing:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <unistd.h>

void *task(void *argument)
{
    struct timeval tv;
    tv.tv_sec  =3D 4;
    tv.tv_usec =3D 0;
    int rc;

    while(1)
    {
        tv.tv_sec  =3D 5;
        tv.tv_usec =3D 0;
        printf("sleeping for 5 secs\n");
        rc =3D select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
        printf("Woke up after 5 sec\n");
    }
}

int main(void)
{
   pthread_t thread;
   int rc;

   rc =3D pthread_create(&thread, NULL, task, (void *) NULL);

   rc =3D pthread_join(thread, NULL);
}

Upon execution the program keeps printing "sleeping for 5 secs" followed by=
 "Woke up after 5 sec". As soon as I set the system date to a back date, ev=
en if few hours back, the loop sticks at "sleeping for 5 secs" forever unle=
ss I resume the system date. When I resume the system date to current date =
the program also resumes to normal execution!!!

I'm sure that FreeBSD will still not be living with such a big anomaly and =
there is something amiss in my program itself. Please help me to figure out=
 whats wrong in this.

Thanks
Deepak

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