Subject: Re: Is rebuilding suse_base supposed to cause ld_config to eat resources?
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/26/2002 20:49:44
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 07:52:33PM -0800, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> Well, eat cpu anyway. It's competing with cron at the moment.

I think it's a problem which has already been reported: 
suse's ldconfig is, for some reason, run as a native binary instead of
linux. A syscall made by ldconfig happens to be our settimeofday(),
which change the date of the machine (which can confuse cron) and the
return value confuse ldconfig.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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