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fcup-settime: moved time() retrieval a little closer to the output A fundamental problem with all simple time transfer tools is that there is always some delay between the time retrieval on the source system and that transmitted time being set on the destination, and the resulting time on the destination system is off by that delay amount. This delay cannot be fully eliminated when working in a simple environment like ours, but we should make our best effort to minimize it. In the present case, moving the atinterf_init() call before the time() retrieval should make a teensy-tiny improvement.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:52:17 +0000
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You are looking at the source for the TIFFS In Vitro Analyzer utility.  You may
have downloaded it either as a separate package or as part of the larger
freecalypso-sw suite.

See TIFFS-Overview (in ../doc if you are working with the full freecalypso-sw
source tree) for a general description of what TIFFS is and why it matters.

The utility contained in the present package runs on a general purpose GNU/Linux
(or other Unix) host and enables "in vitro" examination of Flash File System
images read out of TI-based GSM devices.  Using this utility, you can list the
directory and file content of an FFS image, cat any individual file in the FFS,
or extract the complete FFS content into your regular Unix file system.  Some
"forensic" operations are also supported: by listing the inode array, one can
deduce the order in which the present FFS content got created, and see what
files have been overwritten or deleted in the span of still-visible history.
One can then cat the old byte content of those overwritten or deleted files,
if those data chunks are still in the FFS image (i.e., if the flash sector in
question has not been reclaimed yet).

Compilation and installation are straightforward: run 'make' to compile the
source; you should get 3 executable binaries named tiffs, mokoffs and pirffs;
then run 'make install' as root to install them in /usr/local/bin.  The binary
named tiffs is the main program; mokoffs and pirffs are wrappers that simplify
the most common current use cases.

To install somewhere other than /usr/local/bin, edit the INSTBIN= setting in
the subdirectory Makefiles.  You will also need to edit
tiffs-wrappers/installpath.c accordingly, as the mokoffs and pirffs wrappers
are designed to exec tiffs by its absolute installed pathname.

See Usage for the usage instructions.