Re: crond, hwclock, and clockspeed

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:02:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm guessing that this is just some sort of idiosyncracy of Linux's
> crond.  Perhaps it tries to be smart about leap seconds itself, thereby
> getting confused by the right/leapsecs.dat stuff ... ???

I would guess that it does date arithmetic by essentially
reimplementing libc's localtime(), and assuming a POSIX clock.  Other
schedulers may not have the same problem.  At least, mine doesn't. :)


paul