Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:49:48 +0300 | From | Alexander Shishkin <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes |
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On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:54:12 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> wrote: > > Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might > > want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It > > might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between > > its own and somebody else's time changes. > > Why not implementing somtehing like http://lwn.net/Articles/323658/ a > la plan 9 with a poll callback ?
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll investigate this approach.
> It will be plan9 compatible and so unix
I don't think that plan9 == unix statement is broadly correct, but I don't know enough on the topic yet.
Regards, -- Alex
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