time of day warning

Lorie Obal lobal at cds1.net
Mon May 13 21:47:23 PDT 2002


On Mon, 13 May 2002, Eric Eisenhart wrote:

> 
> I believe the basic problem is in the kernel.  Something where the system
> call to get how many microseconds have gone by would sometimes return a
> value and then the next call returned a lower value (instead of higher),
> which isn't correct unless your computer travels back in time.
> 
	Actually, the latter would be a much more interesting problem to 
solve ;-)

-Lorie



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