[brandz-discuss] brandz times zone

[Maciej Browarski]

Maciej Browarski

Sun Microsystems Poland Sp. z o.o.
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Dan Price wrote:
> On Tue 13 Nov 2007 at 11:11PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>   
>>> Hello,
>>> Yes, I'd like to have timeshift by some number of seconds, why ?
>>> The main reason is that developers need to know how software will
>>> run in particular time (end of month, end of year). So they can
>>> write and test new software.  I know, there are other way to test
>>> software, but this is, I think, most easy way and there is no impact
>>> to this software.  Containers are very good for such environments
>>> (test&developer) so timeshift it's, I think,  important.
>>>       
>> Maybe changes could be made to make that possible, but except for
>> testing timezone or Y2K/Y2038/whatever transition issues, it might actually
>> be a bad thing - more overhead for system calls that need to be fast,
>> more opportunities for people to do something Really Stupid, and that
>> code would probably get exercised less that would be the case with the
>> code that leaves the time alone in the non-global zones, so it would tend
>> to have problems not be discovered/fixed so quickly.
>>     
>
> Well, not with BrandZ, but as a core part of zones, we did have an
> intern do some prototyping this summer.  It wasn't that much effort
> to make this work, but we did suss out some of the more subtle issues.
>
> See some of the entries in http://blogs.sun.com/dank
>
>         -dp
>
>
>   
I aware of dysfunction of TimeShift zone, but I'd like have this 
functionality.
So, on which level of delevoping is now this project ?
It will be, in future, merge with zone in opensolaris ?
Is there any chance, a little, to test this software ?

Regards
Maciej