Messages in this thread | | | From | CT@braehler ... | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:53:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: How can Emacs get a unique ID per Linux reboot? |
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Riley Williams wrote:
> OK, if you're going to deliberately mangle your system clock in some > random way, then that will break, but if you're referring to changes > from winter to summer time and back again, then the above will deal > with that quite happily... Is NTP a case of "deliberately mangle your system clock"? Summer- and wintertime is a question of timezones, but when the NTP demon adjusts the system time, the BootID will shift too (if I understood the problem correctly).
Not that I would touch EMACS with anything but a ten foot pole, but incorrect values are incorrect values, and may confuse other programs too.
An easy way could be a system patch which copies the system time at boot into another variable, which is exported read-only via "/proc/bootID" or something along that. IMHO no great deal.
yours, Christian -- 100 useful things to do with EMACS: 47: Delete it to get alot more free disk space 72: Load doom.el 93: Impress your Windows-using friends: "Its just like edit, but it uses more resources than Word, and I can afford it!"
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