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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2004 23:31:08 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump optr.c 
Message-ID:  <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 2004 13:13:33 PDT." <200405212013.i4LKDXg1060233@repoman.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200405212013.i4LKDXg1060233@repoman.freebsd.org>, Warner Losh write
s:
>imp         2004/05/21 13:13:33 PDT
>
>  FreeBSD src repository
>
>  Modified files:
>    sbin/dump            optr.c 
>  Log:
>  Enter the 1990's and assume that the computer knows what time it is.
>  Print the ETA of dump being finished, rather than a cryptic delta
>  time.  Also, if we have written more blocks than the tapesize, assume
>  that we are 99.99% done and that we'll be finished 'soon'.

Uhm, this is all find and well for running in multiuser, but if you
boot single-user the system does not know what time it is (reliably).

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