[Info-vax] Does anyone know if the unsupported TBO (time boost utility that "drifts" time forward or backward by adjusting ticklength) was every ported to the Itanium?

[Jon Pinkley]

On Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 5:48:40 AM UTC-5, Volker Halle wrote:
> Jon,
> 
> TBO 2.0 (as pointed to by your first entry), compiles and links without error on OpenVMS I64 V8.2. Chances are good, that it will also function correctly, but I didn't try ...
> 
> Volker.

Volker,

Thank you very much.

I wouldn't test it on any production system either.  It is unsupported and can easily cause problems, especially if you provide input that it isn't expecting.  Like reversing the /DELTA and /RANGE values, which can result in overflows and insane values for EXE$GL_TICKLENGTH.  In other words, there is no sanity checking, so if it isn't being used by a command procedure, it is a dangerous utility.  

Or as Hoff might say, it has no blade guards.

And that isn't even considering that there may be other lurking problems in the $cmkrnl code that behave slightly differently on the IA64, although my guess is that it will work correctly.

Unfortunately, I don't think we will ever see another version of the IDSM that covers changes in the IA64 or X64 versions of OpenVMS.

Thanks again,

Jon