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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Linux system calls from RT kernel task
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Jeff Weber wrote:
> On Thursday 12 April 2007 09:24, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 
>>instance, the Xenomai service for getting the current date is
>>rt_timer_read or clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME)).
> 
> I would like to use the Xenomai clock routines.  However, these are not [yet] 
> able to stay synchronized to an external time reference, like an ntp server. 
> For my application, the ensuing drift is a problem. The Linux kernel clock is 
> able to synchronize to an external time reference.

You could call xnpod_settime "often enough". But agreed, this is not the
way these things should work.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix