On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Kareem Dana wrote: > I am using OpenBSD 3.7 GENERIC on an i386 and installed the > redhat_base-8.0p4.tgz for linux compatibilty and was fooling around > with getting linux binaries to work within a chroot when I noticed > that my system clock had been reset to 1969. The only reference to > that happening that I found was another mailing list post back in > 2003.
if the linux binary is misidentified as a native binary, one of the first syscalls it makes happens to line up with settimeofday for a native program, but with wrong arguments so time goes to 0. for some reason, ld is particularly problematic in this regard. -- And that's why I'm not allowed at the zoo anymore.
