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Date:      Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:31:45 +0300
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        phk@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wrong date for DEVFS entries
Message-ID:  <20030206103144.GB12538@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1091.1044527256@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <20030206193118.T72545-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <1091.1044527256@critter.freebsd.dk>

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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. 

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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