Subject: star is fast-forwarding the system time via the -ctime option
Package: star
Version: 1.5a57-1
Severity: important
When using -atime -ctime (to let star restore all inode times after the
dump), star with root privs undeterminably fast-forwards the system time.
This is really SERIOUS bug, which should not occur in such software.
This is probably caused by the method of restoring i-node ctime, see
star/star_unix.c:654:
#ifdef SET_CTIME
if (Ctime) {
gettimeofday(&curtime, 0);
settimeofday(&tp[2], 0);
}
#endif
ret = utimes(name, tp);
errsav = geterrno();
#ifdef SET_CTIME
if (Ctime) {
gettimeofday(&pasttime, 0);
/* XXX Hack: f_ctime.tv_usec ist immer 0! */
curtime.tv_usec += pasttime.tv_usec;
if (curtime.tv_usec > 1000000) {
curtime.tv_sec += 1;
curtime.tv_usec -= 1000000;
}
settimeofday(&curtime, 0);
/* error("pasttime.usec: %d\n", pasttime.tv_usec);*/
}
#endif
Possibly (another) bug: Doesn't sole "curtime.tv_usec += pasttime.tv_usec;"
statement ignore possible pasttime.tv_sec change for cases, when the
intermediate part lasted unexpectedly long?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages star depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared
library
ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared
library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries an
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