Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:54:19 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 32-bit time in <utmp.h> (Re: cvs commit: ports/net/pppd23 Makefile ports/net/pppd23/files extra-patch-no-logf patch-ab) Message-ID: <20040428205419.GA50080@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040428224819.A86269@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <200404281956.i3SJuZxU033263@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040428202237.GA49702@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040428224819.A86269@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:48:19PM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:22:37PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >=20
> > I wonder if this 32-bitness is related to the accounting problems
> > noticed on sparc64 since the 64-bit time_t changeover:
> >=20
> > struct lastlog {
> > int32_t ll_time;
> > char ll_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> > char ll_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> > };
> >=20
> > struct utmp {
> > char ut_line[UT_LINESIZE];
> > char ut_name[UT_NAMESIZE];
> > char ut_host[UT_HOSTSIZE];
> > int32_t ut_time;
> > };
> >=20
>=20
> Like I said before, this isn't a sparc64 specific problem, I also see
> it on my -current i386 boxes:
>=20
> tristan# uname -a
> FreeBSD tristan.franken.de 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Wed Apr 28=
22:11:03 CEST 2004 root@tristan.franken.de:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/t=
ristan i386
> tristan# /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting
>=20
> Doing login accounting:
> (Skipped 709 of 739 records due to invalid time values)
> (Changed 3 of 739 records to have a more likely time value)
> root -65080.69
> marius -136664.62
> total -201745.32
>=20
> I think it's connected to SCHED_ULE, but haven't checked that closely,
> yet.
OK, perhaps a general PR should be opened about this.
Kris
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