The following reply was made to PR lib/34218; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth)
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, lib-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/34218: settimeofday(2) causes date(1) command to han
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:56:52 -0700

      Can you try the following patch to lib/libc/settimeofday.c, please?
 
 --- settimeofday.c.orig 2006-08-16 14:35:19.000000000 -0700
 +++ settimeofday.c      2006-08-16 14:40:54.000000000 -0700
 @@ -84,9 +84,12 @@ try_syscall:
                  * If credentials changed from root to an unprivilegied
                  * user, and we already had __clockctl_fd = -1, then we
                  * tried the system call as a non root user, it failed
 -                * with EPERM, and we will try clockctl.
 +                * with EPERM, and we will try clockctl unless the user
 +                * is root which means they probably tried to set the
 +                * clock backwards and are not allowed to do so because
 +                * of the securelevel.
                  */
 -               if (rv != -1 || errno != EPERM)
 +               if (rv != -1 || errno != EPERM || geteuid() == 0)
                         return rv;
                 __clockctl_fd = -2;
         }