Issues w/ timezones on gssftpd

Philip Prindeville philipp at redfish-solutions.com
Thu Nov 30 20:37:04 EST 2006


Jeffrey Altman wrote:

>Philip Prindeville wrote:
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>>Which begs the question: why isn't tzset() $%^&* idempotent?
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>Perhaps because you don't want to have to restart your machine
>simply because you moved from one timezone to another.
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>Jeffrey Altman
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Well, you wouldn't...  just the processes that were started previously, but
ok, I get your point.

Ok, if tzset() ran successfully previously, then got called a second time
and failed to find its files...  should it clobber previously good results?
Or retain them?

-Philip




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