3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
12:58 a.m.
On 7/2/2012 2:06 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Dumb question, but I haven't followed this thread that closely - been busy at work - but why not $ service ntp stop $ ntpdate $ service ntp start
Because that results in a call to adjtimex(2), which is also the syscall used by ntpd, which in turn is affected by the kernel bug.
Calling date(1) instead uses the clock_settime(2) syscall, which isn't affected.
One isn't implemented in terms of the other, for reasons that should be obvious from the manpages.