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Old 09-26-2007
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Originally Posted by Perderabo View Post
....But this does not require a reboot...
pthread_cond_timedwait() takes an absolute time, if you step back six months any threaded code waiting on one of these will wait six months.

Oh, and don't use NFS across time discontinuities.