[parisc-linux] ntpdate broken

Carlos O'Donell Jr. carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:33:08 -0500


> > 
> > 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

Could there be other long issues lurking?
A hidden assumption somewhere?

I guess my questions would be: 
Are wide/narrow wrapper issues ferreted out one by one?

c.