From: "Trevor Forbes" <trevorforbes@ozemail.com.au>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: clock skew
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002e01bfa0eb$8b58e200$0200a8c0@VOYAGER> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000407122733.21078.qmail@web113.yahoomail.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Trevor Forbes" <trevorforbes@ozemail.com.au>; "Cygwin"
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Friday, 7 April 2000 9:57
Subject: Re: clock skew
> --- Trevor Forbes <trevorforbes@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> > I get the following random error when building packages?
> >
> > make[1]: *** Warning: File `xmakefile' has modification time in the
future
> > (2000-04-07 08:09:32 > 2000-04-07 08:09:31)
> > make[1]: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be
incomplete.
> >
> > The clock skew is always out by one second and it never seems to affect
the
> > final build.
> > There is no network drives involved
> >
> >
> > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/2000-02/msg00035.html
> > states the problem as:
> > This appears to be a typical characteristic of Windows systems, as if
the
> > low order bits of the file time are "random." It hasn't appeared to be
a
> > problem; I don't see it as often in Win2K. I've wondered whether cygwin
> > should mask off the low order bits, given that Windows works this way.
> >
> > Is the above statement correct?
> >
> > Anyway, my question is, given that it does not seem to affect builds and
> > that does not seem to be a common problem.
> > Should I just continue to ignore the error or will it eventually cause a
> > build to be incomplete?
> >
> >
>
> Would you be using a networked device for storage, compilation, etc? This
> could be a difference in clocks between your workstation and the
fileserver.
>
>
> =====
> ---
> Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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Simply no.
Trevor
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2000-04-07 5:27 Earnie Boyd
2000-04-07 8:30 ` Tim Prince
2000-04-07 16:47 ` Trevor Forbes [this message]
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2000-04-06 16:52 Trevor Forbes
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