Since 0.9: - Balint Reczey added support for nanosecond resolution, saving timestamps to files, speeding up and slowing down per-process timers, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, faketime support for system calls such as sleep() and alarm(). - Applied a patch by Gerardo Malazdrewicz and Toni G to restore compatibility with newer versions of glibc. - Balint Reczey added an option to use the same global clock setting for all libfaketime-spawned processes. - Balint Reczey has rewritten the faketime wrapper shell script in C and refactored libfaketime. - Balint Reczey added support for advancing the time with each time- related system call ("deterministic time"). - Added "timeprivacy" wrapper by adrelanos; it ensures that programs are started with unique timestamps. - Code and documentation cleanup by Tomi Ollila. - Reworked Makefiles for more flexible installation, including fixes by Lukas Fleischner, Daniel Kahm Gillmor, and Hugues Andreux. - Fixed license issues as pointed out by Paul Wouters. - Mac OS X support has been improved for OS X 10.7 and 10.8; due to changes to the underlying libraries on OS X, libfaketime 0.9.5 will no longer work with OS X < 10.6; use libfaketime 0.9(.1) for older OS X installations. - Don Fong has contributed a new framework for functional tests. Petr Salinger ensured its compatibility with GNU/kFreeBSD. Since 0.8.2: - Added support for "limited faking". You can optionally specify when libfaketime starts to fake the returned timestamps and when it shall stop doing so. For example, a program can be started regularly, and after 5 minutes run-time it will be sent two years into the future. Those limiting start and stop times can be specified in seconds or as the number of any time-related function calls within the program. - Added a feature to spawn an external process after x seconds or y time-related system calls. This can, for example, be used to execute an arbitrary shell script x seconds after a program has been started. Since 0.8.1: - Added a MacOS port. Thanks to Derrick Brashear! - Added a functional test framework that aids in automatically determining whether libfaketime works properly on the current machine. Thanks to Don Fong! Since 0.8: - Changed directory layout and Makefile structure. Thanks to Lukas Fleischer! Since 0.7: - Added support for fstatat() and fstatat64() which were introduced in Linux kernel 2.6.16 and used in recent coreutils. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for the report! This can be disabled by passing -DNO_ATFILE in the Makefile. - Added a simple wrapper shell script and a man page for it. Makes it easier to run commands under faked system times. It assumes that the libraries will be copied to /usr/lib/faketime during installation, please adjust this path if necessary. The "install" target in the Makefile has been adapted accordingly. - Added support for fractional time offsets, such as FAKETIME="+1,5h". Please note that either , or . has to be used as a delimiter depending on your locale. Thanks to Karl Chen! - Added support for speeding the clock up or slowing it down. For example, FAKETIME="+5d x2,0" will set the faked time 5 days into the future and make the clock run twice as fast for the specified program. Slowing it down can be done e.g. by using FAKETIME="+0 x0,5". Again, the delimiter to use for the fraction depends on your locale. Thanks to Karl Chen! Since 0.6: Main version 0.7 contributions by David North, TDI: - Added ability to 'start clock at' a specific time. - Added pthread synchronization support - Added a 2 second delay to timetest.c so one can observe if the clock is relative or absolute - Added test.sh example of 'start clock at' - Added ability to disable the FAKE_STAT functionality at library-start in the case that the library was compiled -DFAKE_STAT, and added another test case for demonstrating this - Repaired a bug w.r.t. strptime/mktime wherein 'isdst' was uninitialized which led to pseudorandom +/- 1 hour results being returned in 'start at' or absolute time modes Other enhancements: - Fixed missing interceptions to libc-internal functions and added notes about a workaround for running Java programs with faked times in the future (they worked properly, but often locked up at exiting). Thanks to Jamie Cameron of Google for in-depth analysis and prototype solution! Since 0.5: - Performance enhancements by means of caching the data read e.g. from $HOME/.faketimerc for 10 seconds. - Several file timestamp related system calls such as fstat() will be intercepted now. See the README file on how to turn this off if you do not need it. Thanks to Philipp Hachtmann! - A system-wide /etc/faketimerc file will now be used if no FAKETIME environment variable has been set and no $HOME/.faketimerc is present. Thanks to David Burley, Jacob Moorman, and Wayne Davison of SourceForge, Inc.! - Added trivial Makefile targets clean/distclean/install - Changed Makefile target test to run new test.sh script - Added new test cases to timetest.c Since 0.4: - Allow "y" for years of offset specification. Thanks to Bas ten Berge! Since 0.3: - Support for FAKETIME_FMT environment variable. Thanks to Moreno Baricevic! Since 0.2: - Intercept clock_gettime(). Thanks to Andreas Thienemann! Since 0.1: - Fixed segfault when calling time(NULL). Thanks to Andres Ojamaa! - Added additional sanity checks.