From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 8 8:10:40 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 3057937B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 08:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4FB43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 08:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: from pobrecita.freebsd.ru (ache@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nagual.pp.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h18GAVGQ045121; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:10:31 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache@pobrecita.freebsd.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by pobrecita.freebsd.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h18GAOuB045120; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:10:24 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:10:24 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries Message-ID: <20030208161023.GA45063@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20030207232556.GA36704@nagual.pp.ru> <17137.1044691280@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17137.1044691280@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:01:20 +0100, phk@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: > >I see no solving way until kernel will understand fully and can handle > >timezone database format. It means timezone code should be integrated > >into kernel. And for which reason? Only to heal DEVFS timestamps? Mount > >workaround looks more light-weighted. > > Please re-read my earlier email on the topic. I wrote this after careful examination of your earlier email about taking zoneinfo information at boot time, i.e. about "/boot/timezone.hint" which must be in zoneinfo format to handle unlimited amount of machine up/down times. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message