Re: clock -w writes bogus date

[David Engel]

Bill Wohler writes:
> Package: util-linux
> Version: 2.5-5
>   
>   "clock -w" is screwing up the CMOS clock.  See:
> ...
>   Is there anything here I'm missing (e.g., related
>   programs/packages/settings)?  The segmentation violation and hanging
>   of clock -r is worth a bug report to be sure, but could the -w
>   failure be a mis-configuration of the timezone or Universal time on
>   my part?  I had answered "no" to the Universal time question at
>   install (due to [EMAIL PROTECTED] DOS).  I just ran tzconfig to change
>   /etc/timezone from Factory to US/Pacific thinking that was my
>   problem.

This has already been reported in Bug#4265.  Here is a quick patch to
clock.c in util-linux that fixed it for me:

David
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David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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--- clock.c.orig        Mon Aug 26 10:26:53 1996
+++ clock.c     Mon Aug 26 10:31:38 1996
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@
     }

     /* Read the RTC time/date */
-    retval = ioctl(cmos_fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &tm);
+    retval = ioctl(cmos_fd, RTC_RD_TIME, tm);
     if (retval == -1) {
       perror("ioctl");
       exit(errno);
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@

     int retval;

-    retval = ioctl(cmos_fd, RTC_SET_TIME, tmp);
+    retval = ioctl(cmos_fd, RTC_SET_TIME, tm);
     if (retval == -1) {
       perror("ioctl");
       exit(errno);