Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 10:01:54 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: Linux updates RTC secretly when clock synchronizes |
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Hi!
> >> 3. AFAICT, if xntpd writes to the RTC, then it has achieved true > >> synchronisation to a reference clock other than the RTC. > > > I thought the original poster was claiming that the /kernel/ > > wrote to the RTC, which would explain the behaviour I'm seeing. > > The kernel itself never writes to the RTC, and that is one of Linus's > decisions with which I am in 100% agreeance (and one thing I hate about > Windows). In fact, the kernel itself also doesn't read from the RTC > either, but leaves that to userspace.
Wrong two times. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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