From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25045 invoked by alias); 30 Mar 2011 17:26:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 25034 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Mar 2011 17:26:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk (HELO treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk) (129.215.16.102) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:26:23 +0000 Received: from nutty.inf.ed.ac.uk (nutty.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.33.33]) by treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p2UHQHXf009863 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:26:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk (calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk [129.215.24.15]) by nutty.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2UHQGXj017909 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:26:16 +0100 Received: from calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2UHQGWc025221 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:26:16 +0100 Received: (from ht@localhost) by calexico.inf.ed.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id p2UHQF6q025217; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:26:15 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Resetting time via time server doesn't affect cygwin 'date' References: <20110330164538.GB25534@calimero.vinschen.de> From: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:47:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20110330164538.GB25534@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:45:38 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.21 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Edinburgh-Scanned: at treacle.ucs.ed.ac.uk with MIMEDefang 2.60, Sophie, Sophos Anti-Virus, Clam AntiVirus X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00841.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen writes: > There's an internal counter which is initialized by the first Cygwin > process started in a session. So time chanegs made by a Cygwin process > are seen by other Cygwin processes in the same session, but time changes > outside of Cygwin or outside of the same session are not seen, unless all > Cygwin processes in a session are stopped and restarted. This will be > fixed at one point. Thanks for clarifying. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple