Hi. It seems our use of gettimeofday to calculate elapsed time is potentially buggy. When I run "rdate" to resync my computers clock with some internet time server, it can happen that brltty stops to interact with my display for a certain period of time. This only happens when the time gets adjusted some seconds back.
It should be fairly easy to reproduce, just set your time in the future and use rdate to correct it again. I havent tried to reproduce it deliberately yet though, it just happened to me two times in the last several weeks. I think this is a real problem, the braille display driver should never hang just because the clock was readjusted! This is with the TSI driver. I dont know (or havent observed it yet) if this also happens with other display drivers. But I am guessing every driver that makes some use of gettimeofday is protentially affected. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
