Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:22:40 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9 |
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Hi!
> 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, > jiffies since boot, and jiffies per second. Writing a decimal > number to
Jiffies are strange... and I guess time should be exported as 123.456 (seconds . fractional part). That way we are not limited to nanoseconds...
Same interface can be used for setting precise time... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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