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Re: XNTP3/MIPS RISCos 5.01 solved (ish)

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From: Alan Judge
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:54
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Lars> from your log it looks like the system time jumped one second backward
Lars> in the minute after 05:56:26. Perhaps the SETTIMEOFDAY_DAMAGED patch
Lars> does not always guess correctly to which side RISC/os 5 is going to
Lars> jump?
The SETTIME code only gets called if we are stepping, so I don't see
how it could cause the problem.  In any case, it actually uses
gettimeofday to see where we actually stepped to, so I don't think it
could "guess" incorrectly.
--
Alan
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Subject: Re: XNTP3/MIPS RISCos 5.01 solved (ish)
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