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Re: zonefile changes and long running processes.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 12:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: zonefile changes and long running processes.
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> So the zonefile changing won't get noticed until you call tzset
> again and it's always the applications responsibility to do so?
Yes. That has always been the glibc position on this.
I don't know about the multi-thread case vs tzset, however.