From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: george@mvista.com
Cc: linux@horizon.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: NTP leap second question
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:53:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126921981.22531.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <432B6BDF.2010607@mvista.com>
> Eh?? Then what is one to make of the code in timer.c that add
> leapseconds? It seems to be controlled by the adjtime() system call.
>
> Sure looks like it sets the system clock (xtime) ahead or back by a
> second at midnight if the flag is set to do so.
Yes it supports that - but since nobody runs the system clock in GMT it
should never be getting set by any caller. At least as far as I can see
from the code in glibc any glibc using system should never have xntpd
set the flag
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 22:20 NTP leap second question linux
2005-09-16 21:58 ` George Anzinger
2005-09-17 1:23 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-17 1:05 ` George Anzinger
2005-09-17 1:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2005-09-14 17:48 [RFC][PATCH] NTP shift_right cleanup (v. A1) john stultz
2005-09-14 17:53 ` john stultz
2005-09-14 18:39 ` NTP leap second question George Anzinger
2005-09-14 18:54 ` john stultz
2005-09-15 6:49 ` Ulrich Windl
2005-09-15 17:21 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-15 18:35 ` Alan Cox
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