Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Blaisorblade <> | Subject | Re: [uml-devel] Re: [RFC] PATCH 0/4 - Time virtualization | Date | Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:33:40 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 20:01, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:25:00AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > In the case of migration the ugly case to properly handle is the > > monotonic timer. That needs an offset yet it is absolutely forbidden > > to provide that offset from the inside. So this is the one namespace > > that I think is inappropriate to use sys_unshare to create. > > We need a system call so that we can specify the minimum or the > > starting monotonic time base.
> For migration, it looks like the container will have to specify the > time base at creation so that everything in it will have a consistent > view of time if they get moved around.
> So, maybe it belongs in clone as a "backwards" flag similar to > CLONE_NEWNS.
I must note that currently every (?) flag allowed for unshare is also allowed for clone, so you need to do that anyway.
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