adjtimex should treat -f as signed, not unsigned (with patch)
Bernhard Fischer
rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 01:25:21 PDT 2007
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:57:34PM -0400, Clem Taylor wrote:
>I'm using a snapshot from 2007.03.12. The adjtimex applet isn't
>accepting negative numbers for the frequency parameter:
>adjtimex -q -f -9886616
>adjtimex: invalid number '-9886616'
>
>The frequency field should be postive to make the clock run faster and
>negative to make the clock run slower. Note, this was working in
>1.2.1.
>
>I think the fix should just be:
This was fixed on trunk as r18115.
thanks for pointing this out
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