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From: "Philip Aston" <paston@bea.com>
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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:03:11 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gettimeofday time travels
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Hi Christopher,

cgf writes on 15 Apr:
 > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:58:48PM +0100, Philip Aston wrote:
 > >How about the attached quick and dirty fix?
 > 
 > I'm sorry but I don't think a quick and dirty fix is justified if
 > there are other alternatives. I haven't seen any other alternatives
 > discussed yet.

No other alternatives have been proposed. I'm aware of a couple of
other XEmacs'ers who are plagued by this (we love our uptime).

I don't believe my patch to be dirtier than the implementation (no
offence intended!). Please reconsider it.

Thanks,

- Phil


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