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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:27:45 -0800
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To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to return timex data
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On 01/10/2013 12:12 PM, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
>> Copy the modified timex data back to the user also with positive return
>> values. This fixes reading of the CLOCK_REALTIME timex data when the
>> clock is in a non-zero state.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
>
> (Adding John Stultz on CC)

Just to clarify (the commit message makes it pretty hard to understand 
exactly what's going wrong), this is to handle the case where 
clock_adj() returns a non-zero time_state value (such as TIME_INS) ?

thanks
-john