Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes | From | john stultz <> | Date | Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:30:30 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 15:29 -0700, john stultz wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 00:17 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 23:11, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 15:33 +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > > >> On 4 August 2010 18:58, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > >> > Is there a actual use case that you need this for? I don't really have > > >> > an issue with the code I just really want to make sure the feature would > > >> > be useful enough to justify the API and code maintenance going forward. > > > > Basically everything that schedules an action based on an absolute > > time specification, like at 3pm today, and not in 3 hours from now, > > needs to track such system time changes. Otherwise it has to do > > nonsense like cron does, to wake up every minute to check the current > > time. > > time_create(CLOCK_REALTIME,...) creates absolute (not relative) timers
Sorry, *timer_create*.
thanks -john
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