Bug-report:rsync may hung if time jumps backwards

yhu2 yadi.hu at windriver.com
Thu Nov 27 18:41:00 MST 2014


thanks your reply, could you please send off official fix?

On 11/28/2014 04:05 AM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM, yhu2 <yadi.hu at windriver.com 
> <mailto:yadi.hu at windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     + usleep(t*1000);
>     Is it a correct fix? any comments would be appreciated!!!
>
>
> The hang was not because time went backwards, but because it moved 
> forward by over 2 years (which overflows a variable, making the value 
> negative).   I both fixed that issue, and added a configure check for 
> usleep(), which we will use if it is around. Thanks!
>
> ..wayne..

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