Could someone bring a newer copy of debian, to the next thursday nite
meeting I would like to copy it thanks
ken
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
> Seems that Adobe has given up on releasing Framemaker, and the beta
> expires on Dec 31.
>
> Reading the story on Linux Today, I noticed a really cool little
> tool: to lie to an application and force the time/date. No more
> expiring demo software.
>
> Cut & pasted for your approval:
>
> This quick hack should probably work. Paste this into a file called
> pre.c:
>
> --- CUT HERE ---
> #define SECONDS 975421904
> struct timeval {
> long tv_sec;
> long tv_usec;
> };
>
> int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, void *tz)
> {
> tv->tv_sec = SECONDS;
> tv->tv_usec = 0;
> }
>
> long time(long *t)
> {
> if(t) *t = SECONDS;
> return SECONDS;
> }
> --- CUT HERE ---
>
> Build it with:
> gcc -c pre.c
> ld -shared -o pre.so pre.o
>
> Run it with:
> LD_PRELOAD=./pre.so name_of_program_to_run
>
> Basically it replaces gettimeofday() and time() with stubs which
> return a fixed value. Email if you want a
> version which gets the real time of day and subtracts some amount
> from it instead (I wrote that first, then
> realised that you wanted a version which returned a fixed time).
> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
