On Oct 30, 8:33 am, FutureScalper <futurescal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Oct 30, 8:20 am, Gordon Beaton <n....@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:19:48 -0700, FutureScalper wrote:
> > > This bug has been present way back, and has never been fixed.
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> > > Running the Hotspot Server VM Java 6 Update 3, I am getting
seriously
> > > accelerated system clock times which can be as much as a minute over
a
> > > couple of hours.
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> > > Gateway GT5636E Quad processor Windows Vista Home Premium OS.
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> > > This is just unacceptable for Java to have the side-effect of
altering
> > > the system clock.
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> > While I can sympathize, I do wonder what kind of operating system
> > allows its system clock to be changed by an unprivileged user process?
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> > /gordon
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> Well, that's a good point. I wonder why it is necessary to alter the
> clock anyway. Ironic that Java has no facilities at the user level
> for altering the system clock, but that the runtime alters it as a
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OK, let me add one thing. I am actually running within a privileged
user process, and I guess I can run unprivileged although I would
assume it will still alter the clock since it has something to do with
low level thread seheduling, as best I can understand.
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