Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:15:09 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9 | From | "J.R. Mauro" <> |
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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > On Wed 2009-03-11 10:10:23, Christopher Brannon wrote: >> Under Plan 9 from Bell Labs, one queries or sets the system clock by >> reading or writing text strings to a special file named /dev/time. >> I implemented such a facility for Linux. A read of /dev/time produces >> four decimal numbers: epoch seconds, nanoseconds since start of epoch, >> nanoseconds since boot, and nanoseconds per second. Writing a >> decimal number > > nanoseconds per second?! Just use 123.456 notation.
The point is to be close to Plan 9's interface, in which column 3 is "something since boot" and column 4 is "somethings per second" to keep programs portable.
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