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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> |
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date | Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:52:17 +0000 |
parents | dd3ec7c92bf1 |
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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.