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From: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
To: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] ntpdate broken
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:33:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011205213308.C13344@systemhalted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011205175625.G7051@linuxcare.com>; from rhirst@linuxcare.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:56:25PM +0000

> > 
> > ntpdate isn't working on paer.  from the strace:
> > 
> > socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> > fcntl(4, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
> > rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x287a2, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> > setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 200000}, it_value={0, 100000}}, NULL) = 0
> > setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -12)       = 0
> > poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 60000) = 0
> > poll( <unfinished ...>
> > 
> > anyone want to spend some time debugging this?  i'd bug the debian
> > maintainer, but i hear he's not very sympathetic towards hppa.
> 
> That poll call should have been interrupted by SIGALRM after about 100ms.
> time_t is long, so I guess we need a wrapper for setitimer()/getitimer().
> 
> Richard

Could there be other long issues lurking?
A hidden assumption somewhere?

I guess my questions would be: 
Are wide/narrow wrapper issues ferreted out one by one?

c.

      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-06  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05  4:18 [parisc-linux] ntpdate broken Matthew Wilcox
2001-12-05 17:56 ` Richard Hirst
2001-12-06  2:33   ` Carlos O'Donell Jr. [this message]

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