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Hi! > > > ...should they be changed to 200? Or perhaps file should be readable? > > No, mode 644 is fine. No reason to prevent "other" people from > reading the alarm time (is there?) and if you write a legal value, > that will work. So $SUBJECT is no problem at all. Yep, agreed. I was confused by fact that it does not give invalid values back. > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# cat wakealarm > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# echo 132719 > wakealarm > > At which point I'd expect > > # echo $? > > would indicate the write failed. That's a LONG time in the > past (January 2, 1970), so that setting would be rejected. echo $? says 0 here :-(. > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# > > > > > > ...standard PC with reasonably recent kernel... > > Yeah, well a "standard PC" is chock full of fairly bizarrely > glitchey hardware. Clocks and timers have more than their > fair share, or x86_64 NOHZ support would be merged by now! :-). Ok. Thinkpad x60. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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