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- From: philip@CGIN.CTO.CITICORP.COM (Philip Gladstone)
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- Subject: Re: XNTP3/MIPS RISCos 5.01 solved (ish)
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:46:37 GMT
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- The way that SETTIMEOFDAY_DAMAGED works is that is enables (part of)
- the SLEWALWAYS code. settimeofday() calls are only done for errors of more than
- 2 seconds. After a settimeofday, a gettimeofday is done to determine the error
- left (which is typically under 1 second - depending on the nature of the
- broken settimeofday). This value is pushed into the SLEWALWAYS code. Thus
- after a STEP, the system time will *not* be correct, but the internal NTP
- time will be. The error is removed by the adjtime calls over some time
- period.
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- Philip
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