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* FW: Pine bug in cygwin?
@ 2006-07-26 12:11 Dave Korn
  2006-07-26 13:09 ` Igor Peshansky
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2006-07-26 12:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 26 July 2006 03:45, Tim Newsham wrote:

> I'm seeing weirdness in pine under cygwin.


  Yes, I did notice the way it manages to reply to posts before they've been
sent.  Wow, POSIX-compliant time travel on Windows under Cygwin!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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* Re: FW: Pine bug in cygwin?
  2006-07-26 12:11 FW: Pine bug in cygwin? Dave Korn
@ 2006-07-26 13:09 ` Igor Peshansky
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-07-26 13:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 26 July 2006 03:45, Tim Newsham wrote:
>
> > I'm seeing weirdness in pine under cygwin.
>
>   Yes, I did notice the way it manages to reply to posts before they've
> been sent.  Wow, POSIX-compliant time travel on Windows under Cygwin!

I believe it is called "time drift", and it is certainly allowed by POSIX
(or, rather, not explicitly forbidden).
	Igor
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