[Dovecot] IMAP server <defunct> (beta 7)
Timo Sirainen
tss at iki.fi
Tue May 30 16:52:32 EEST 2006
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 08:09 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> > I just thought that having dovecot die horribly when the clock is adjusted
> > (using settimeofday() I assume) wasn't the most desirable behaviour.
>
> Well, although I agree with you, many unexpected things can happen (esp.
> in Unix) when you go into the past :-(
From programmer's point of view it can be difficult to try to correctly
handle clock going backwards. I've never even bothered trying, since it
really shouldn't happen. :)
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