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.
