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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:09:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      <phk@FreeBSD.org>
To:        simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua, phk@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/23323: TZ implementation: changes in TZ don't make effect on running process
Message-ID:  <200012182109.eBIL9e242412@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Synopsis: TZ implementation: changes in TZ don't make effect on running process

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: phk
State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 18 13:07:02 PST 2000
State-Changed-Why: 
Environment variables like TZ cannot be changed for a running
process unless it does it on its own, so tzsetup will by definition
not have any effect on processes which derive their timezone from
the environment.

Processes which derive their timezone from the system wide default
in /etc/localtime could do a stat(2) on that file to discover if
the timezone changed.

The case for a general need to spend performance on this scenario
is not proven.

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