NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/unix/question/9410

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From: [e-mail] (Jan Vilhuber)
Subject: Fooling process into another date
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Keywords: change date, fool process
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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 00:02:44 GMT
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Hello.
I have a weird request. We are using an HP 9000 835 simultaneously
as a test platform and a development platform (two projects, and yes I
know that's not a good idea). Let's just say we don't have an option
right now. In order to test our software, we fequently need to change the
system date, forwards and backwards. The development guys hate that,
understandably.

Hence: Is there a way to have one login run under one sort of time/date
and the rest of the machine under normal time/date? We would need
to fool the process, for which we frequently change the date, into
looking somewhere else to find its date, thus allowing us to leave the system
date alone, and giving the development guys a break. It is a real time system,
and if we want to test it in under a year, we need to be able to change the
date.

I really have not the slightest idea (in fact have my doubts) that this
is possible, but if anyone has any pointers, ideas, programs, I would
like to hear from you (my boss would like to hear from you even more).

Please either mail me at [e-mail] or [e-mail]
or call me at : [phone]
or post here. I will try to follow the groups for a while.

Thanks!
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 Jan Vilhuber            | Internet: [e-mail] or jvilhube@[130.253.1.4]
 (The skydivin' Bass)      | Bitnet  : jvilhube@DUCAIR
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