Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:10:43 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: phk@freebsd.org, <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries Message-ID: <20030206215533.T511-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030206103144.GB12538@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:27:36 +0100, phk@freebsd.org wrote: > > 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. > > No, it IS different - no real filesystems mounted at this point yet, so no > real timestamps damaged. More precisely: some are mounted, but they are mounted read-only (modulo the bug that adjkerntz is run a little after mounting filesystems read-write). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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