I agreed with you. I thought about it when doing the fix, that's why the 1000 
was picked as a trick since the struct only addresses the sec and usec. (I 
think the factor of 100 could also work, but anyway.)

It just allows the alarms (or tasks attach to the alarm) to run at least once. 
I think, according to the logic, the tasks time will re-sync again.

-----Original Message-----
From: Wes Hardaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:52 PM
To: Juan Betty-MGIA2720
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Patch for delaying of tasks attached to snmp_alarm_register

>>>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:48:34 -0700, Juan Betty-MGIA2720 <[EMAIL 
>>>>> PROTECTED]> said:

Juan> I found out when setting the system clock backwards (not 
Juan> forwards), delaying of tasks that are registered with 
Juan> snmp_alarm_register. The tasks which are scheduled to run at 
Juan> certain time seem to be held back until the new time catches up 
Juan> with old time again. Didn't see anyone post a patch for this 
Juan> problem, so shared here is a quick patch implemented. There is 
Juan> probably a better solution, but this solved my problem.

Looks like a good patch, but there are a couple of minor issues with
it:

1) tv_usec is actualyl 1/1000000th of a tv_sec not 1/1000
2) doing math the way you are would require 1000000 * tv_sec, which
   will wrap a 32 bit integer.  You can't do it that way unfortunately
   and have to treat the tests individually (hence the reason all the
   other code does a bunch of nasty if checks to verify one stamp is
   less than the other).
3) I didn't check the logic carefully so this may be wrong, but I
   think you're running every alarm if the time goes backward at all?

--
Wes Hardaker
Sparta, Inc.


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