[parisc-linux] ntpdate broken

[Richard Hirst]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:18:53AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> ntpdate isn't working on paer.  from the strace:
> 
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> fcntl(4, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0
> rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x287a2, [], 0}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
> setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 200000}, it_value={0, 100000}}, NULL) = 0
> setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 0, -12)       = 0
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 60000) = 0
> poll( <unfinished ...>
> 
> anyone want to spend some time debugging this?  i'd bug the debian
> maintainer, but i hear he's not very sympathetic towards hppa.

That poll call should have been interrupted by SIGALRM after about 100ms.
time_t is long, so I guess we need a wrapper for setitimer()/getitimer().

Richard