Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux time code | From | john stultz <> | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:58:37 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 13:43 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, john stultz wrote: > > > For example there is a POSIX-like sys_clock_gettime() intended to > > > server the end-user directly, but there's no counterpart do_clock_gettime() to > > > server any in-kernel needs. > > > > Hmmm.. ktime_get(), ktime_get_ts() and ktime_get_real(), provide this > > info. Is there something missing here? > > What is missing is the abiltity to map a clock to a posix clock, so that > you would have CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC as NTP controlled clocks and > other CLOCK_* as the raw clock.
Is there a use case for this (wanting non-NTP corrected time on a system running NTPd) you have in mind?
I'm not strictly opposed to this idea, but since it exposes a new interface to userland it needs to be carefully thought out and well understood.
thanks -john
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