From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 14:43:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBD516A4CE; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D0E43D2D; Fri, 21 May 2004 14:43:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4LLeNQk050072; Fri, 21 May 2004 15:40:23 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:40:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040521.154025.66007717.imp@bsdimp.com> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200405212013.i4LKDXg1060233@repoman.freebsd.org> <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump optr.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 21:43:06 -0000 In message: <43129.1085175068@critter.freebsd.dk> "Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: : 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). Why wouldn't it? It is no worse than a system that doesn't run ntpd. The RTC is relatively reliable. Sure, it won't be sub-microsecond, but even if it is +- 1 minute or even +- 10 minutes it is much better than it is now. Warner