Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 7 May 2001 19:04:39 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: X15 alpha release: as fast as TUX but in user space (fwd) |
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Hi!
> On 03 May 2001 09:13:00 +0200, > kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) wrote: > >pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek) wrote on 30.04.01 in <20010430104231.C3294@bug.ucw.cz>: > > > >> PS: Hmm, how do you do timewarp for just one userland appliation with > >> this installed? > > > >1. What on earth for? > > Y10K testing :) > > >2. How do you do it today, and why wouldn't that work? > > LD_PRELOAD on a library that overrides gettimeofday(). I can see no > reason why that would not continue to work. What would stop working > are timewarp modules that intercepted the syscall at the kernel level > instead of user space level.
...and would break ptrace too.
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