[Bug 31237] libfaketime: integrate with libfaketime to allow running a program with a fake system time

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31237

--- Comment #4 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> 2012-07-19 05:15:09 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > To do it right you'd need to ensure that all processes running under the same
> > wineserver see the same time, so even tracking child processes wouldn't be
> > sufficient. It would need a convincing use case to be worth the effort.
> 
> So that sounds like you would be open to patches, anyway.  Is that right?
> 
> Is there any guidance on what might make a "convincing use case"?
> There are a lot of use cases, but they do tend to be pretty niche.
> Another example is for testing a program e.g. to see if it handles expired
> certificates correctly, or if it works correctly on a leap day.

That sort of niche use case can be handled by maintaining a separate patch that
you apply for testing. I wouldn't consider it important enough to justify
adding the feature to the main code base.

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