From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 8 08:04:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA12331 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA12285 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA05369; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:58:26 +0200 (CEST) To: Matthew Thyer cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is tickadj still required in -CURRENT ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Oct 1998 23:12:52 +0930." <199810081342.XAA01038@eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 16:58:26 +0200 Message-ID: <5367.907858706@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199810081342.XAA01038@eddie.dsto.defence.gov.au>, Matthew Thyer writes: >As the manual tickadj(8) says: > >BUGS > Fiddling with kernel variables at run time as a part of ordinary opera- > tions is a hideous practice which is only necessary to make up for defi- > ciencies in the implementation of adjtime(8) in many kernels and/or bro- > kenness of the system clock in some vendors' kernels. It would be much > better if the kernels were fixed and the tickadj program went away. > > >So, has FreeBSD-CURRENT's kernel been fixed and can tickadj be removed >from the base system ? Yes and no. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message