Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:50:17 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFCv2] notify userspace about time changes |
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On 08/18/2010 04:57 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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?
There are other users of this functionality. We have an emulator running on top of linux which in turn runs code originally intended for another OS. It cares about walltime, so it wants to know ASAP if the linux system time changes.
We've actually been carrying an internal patch doing something like this for years now...never pushed it to mainline since we didn't think anyone else would be interested.
Chris
-- Chris Friesen Software Developer GENBAND chris.friesen@genband.com www.genband.com
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