21 Jun
2008
21 Jun
'08
1:04 a.m.
Bill Cole wrote:
At 11:10 AM +0200 6/20/08, Anders wrote:
By that line, the entire "time moved backwards" thing does not belong in Dovecot.
I suspect that you don't understand why that is in Dovecot. Timo has explained it in detail a few times, but the bottom line is simple: running through the same system-clock time more than once induces a very real risk of destroying mail.
... and running through the same system clock twice is exactly what you will do if you fail to detect a temporary forward jump of 1.2 hours when it happens.
I might follow your advice of "notsc", it makes me a bit uncomfortable that gettimeofday() can fail for other applications as well.
Cheers, Anders.