Karen Tung wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> Thanks for your review.  I agree that including the comment will make the
> file more complete.  However, I tend to want to leave it out.
> This is because this particular change is just a temporary workaround.
> The real solution is to run the rtc command in a separate zone so nothing
> on the underlying system gets affected.   I know that including the
> comment is just a simple series of "echo" statements, but I think it makes
> the code harder to read with these extra echo statements.  For 
> developers and hackers,
> they can easily just look up the same information from the rtc man page or
> the actual code itself.
>   
If it matters, I'd vote for including the comment.

Jean
> Thanks,
>
> --Karen
>
> Jack Schwartz wrote:
>   
>> Hi Karen.
>>
>> Functionally the changes look fine to me.
>>
>> My concern is that the comment at the beginning of the file is left 
>> out.  In order to give a more complete file, such as what the rtc 
>> command generates, you may want to include it.  It explains how the info 
>> is used, which may be of interest to developers/hackers, who will be the 
>> primary users of this script.  From rtc.c, the comment is:
>>
>> static char zone_comment[] =
>>         "#\n"
>>         "#      This file (%s) contains information used to manage the\n"
>>         "#      x86 real time clock hardware.  The hardware is kept in\n"
>>         "#      the machine's local time for compatibility with other x86\n"
>>         "#      operating systems.  This file is read by the kernel at\n"
>>         "#      boot time.  It is set and updated by the /usr/sbin/rtc\n"
>>         "#      command.  The 'zone_info' field designates the local\n"
>>         "#      time zone.  The 'zone_lag' field indicates the number\n"
>>         "#      of seconds between local time and Greenwich Mean Time.\n"
>>         "#\n";
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Jack
>>
>> Karen Tung wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Please do a review for fixing the following bug:
>>>
>>> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=349
>>>
>>> The webrev is at:
>>>
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~ktung/bug349/
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --Karen
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