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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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-03 19:59 devzero

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