[Dovecot] Time moved backwards by 4398 seconds

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Fri Jun 20 13:33:57 EEST 2008


> This bug causes Dovecot to run the IO loop in the future for one 
> iteration, and then die when we get back to present time.
> 
> By the time Dovecot dies, some damage could already have happend, for 
> example if ioloop_time is stored to permanent storage.

Hmm, ok, I was under the impression it aborted early enough.

> BTW, can you send a link to the post with the resolution for the kernel? 
> I didn't manage to find any final conclusion, but I would like to 
> propose the fix to our kernel provider :).

I didn't actually look up any fix just there were fixes in the thread.
Didn't check which one if any was merged though.

johannes
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