[Dovecot] Time moved backwards

[Timo Sirainen]

On May 15, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Neal Becker wrote:

> Problem I see is that an external script that *unconditionally*  
> relaunches
> dovecot could be a terribly problem.  It's better for dovecot to do it
> itself in this particular failure, because it's the only one who  
> knows that
> it was just a date issue, and relaunching is safe.

If someone wants to code this relaunching, feel free to do it and if  
the code looks good I'll include it.

I'll maybe try fixing this some other way for v1.2 (verify all  
timestamp comparison code, make timeout handling work if clock moves,  
log only a warning. I'm not sure if I'm going to use a monotonic  
clock, since I'd like to know when time moves backwards or too much  
forwards and add some hooks there to do things like update dotlock  
file mtimes).

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