Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:57:02 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFCv2] notify userspace about time changes |
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:55:39 +0300 Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> wrote:
> Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or cron) might > want to be notified when some other application changes the system time.
The requirements sound a bit fluffy to me.
Any time-displaying application will find out the new time next time it reads the time. So afaict this is only really useful for clock applets which display once per minute, so they will show the new time promptly after the time was altered, yes? Is that really worth adding new code for?
> It > might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between > its own and somebody else's time changes.
hm. Why? What are you thinking of here, specifically?
Also... what's the story with kernel-NTP updates?
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