[pdftex] Acroread and gettimeofday [was: Cropping bottom margin off one-page documents.]

[Hans Hagen]

Michael Chapman wrote:

>On Tuesday 21 September 2004 11:39 pm, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
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>>strace is a program which records system calls.  It seems that
>>acroread has nothing else to do than permanently ask the operating
>>system "how late is it?".  See below.  I've never seen something like
>>this anywhere else.
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>>Regards,
>>  Reinhard
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>Can't see why it would be needed, but it could be a benign nonsense command?
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>Our dial-up ISP seems to like to drop connections if they're not busy and it 
>is ;-)>   (Not so bad if one was assured of the same IP address the next 
>time.) So we 'block' the connection open with silly calls ("ping").
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>Can't see why acroread would need anything similar, but it may be a 
>work-around rather than what it appears ....
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it may be related by the auto advance page every such and sauch seconds 
in full screen mode; there may also be (global) javascripts running in 
tbe backgrounds that need the timer

Hans