From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.92] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4Jzd-0001Mc-HR for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:15:21 -0700 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52] helo=mail.esperi.org.uk ident=user37973) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1K4Jzb-0000EV-C8 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:15:21 -0700 References: <20080603190235.GA9511@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <20080603123211.e129c222.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200806031543.56864.dhazelton@enter.net> <878wxmfg99.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> <20080603130709.fcf6a751.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080603210048.GA12182@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <4846A75E.40305@goop.org> <20080604193715.GA11943@c2.user-mode-linux.org> <4846F577.10603@goop.org> <20080605153008.GC7311@c2.user-mode-linux.org> From: Nix Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080605153008.GC7311@c2.user-mode-linux.org> (Jeff Dike's message of "Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:30:08 -0400") Message-ID: <87k5h392bd.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Jeff Dike Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, dhazelton@enter.net 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel