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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes
    On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:54:12 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
    > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> wrote:
    > > Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might
    > > want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It
    > > might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between
    > > its own and somebody else's time changes.
    >
    > Why not implementing somtehing like http://lwn.net/Articles/323658/ a
    > la plan 9 with a poll callback ?

    Thanks for pointing this out, I'll investigate this approach.

    > It will be plan9 compatible and so unix

    I don't think that plan9 == unix statement is broadly correct, but I don't
    know enough on the topic yet.

    Regards,
    --
    Alex


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