From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dhazelton@enter.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5h392bd.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080605153008.GC7311@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (Jeff Dike's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:30:08 -0400")
On 5 Jun 2008, Jeff Dike verbalised:
> Aha, I was looking at timer_* and not getting reasonable-looking
> results. The one questionable aspect of this is that I need to pull
> in a new library (librt) and I wonder how many people don't have it
> installed...
It comes with glibc, and even ls uses it (for clock_gettime(), to
determine what format to use for date display).
I'd say using it is about as safe as can be.
> Anyway, the patch below seems to make the guest behave reasonably in
> the face of the host time doing funky things...
>
> Give it a spin and let me know how it does. If there aren't any
> problems, I'll get it into mainline.
Rebuilding for a test now.
--
`If you are having a "ua luea luea le ua le" kind of day, I can only
assume that you are doing no work due [to] incapacitating nausea caused
by numerous lazy demons.' --- Frossie
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-03 19:02 [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards Jeff Dike
2008-06-03 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-03 19:43 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-03 19:52 ` Nix
2008-06-03 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-03 20:37 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-03 21:00 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 1:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-06-04 3:15 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 5:12 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-06-04 14:31 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-04 19:37 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-04 20:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-05 15:30 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-05 18:14 ` Nix [this message]
2008-06-05 19:47 ` Jeff Dike
2008-06-05 21:41 ` Nix
2008-06-05 18:19 ` Nix
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2008-06-03 19:59 devzero
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