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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:30:06 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unwanted sig24 problems? 
Message-ID:  <2326.903587406@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:54:08 BST." <199808192154.WAA17907@awfulhak.org> 

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In message <199808192154.WAA17907@awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes:

>The only way this can be happening AFAICT is if the value pointed at 
>by the global ``timecounter'' is fluctuating (going backwards)....

It doesn't.

>Does making ``struct timecounter *timecounter'' volatile in 
>kern_clock.c help ?  I can't tell 'cos the machine that I got this 
>problem with was given back....

I doubt it, if you look at how it is used you will see why.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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