From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Brooks Subject: Re: Signaling dosemu application to kill itself from Linux Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:35:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4255613A.8E@sat.dundee.ac.uk> References: <4254ACBE.3070504@aknet.ru> <200504071206.47247.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Gene Heskett wrote: > > Then maybe the better question is: what bug does it address so that we > may ascertain if we need it or not? And, is it against 1.3.1? The patch was originally against 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 (I forget which). It was not to fix a "bug" as such, rather that DOS time drifts in respect to Linux/real time so the patch simply reads Linux time when a program asks for DOS time. The web page describes the gory details: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1034800&group_id=49784&atid=457449 tonyb@thekrnl.sysdev.org wrote: > We applied your patch in the hope it would fix a date/time corruption > that happens after about 3wks of uptime. We never found a "corruption", just a slow drift. To me "corruption" means badly/randomly wrong and that would suggest a different cause. Andrew