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From: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
To: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml@vger.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@ti.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:49:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100804154948.GC28519@shisha.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimmD1wijmyiSY8xHLyr_fQF52LyUpn3fmT1W_3=@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:54:12 +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> wrote:
> > Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might
> > want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It
> > might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between
> > its own and somebody else's time changes.
> 
> Why not implementing somtehing like http://lwn.net/Articles/323658/ a
> la plan 9 with a poll callback ?

Thanks for pointing this out, I'll investigate this approach.

> It will be plan9 compatible and so unix

I don't think that plan9 == unix statement is broadly correct, but I don't
know enough on the topic yet.

Regards,
--
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-04 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-04 12:48 Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-04 12:54 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2010-08-04 15:49   ` Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2010-08-04 15:32 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-08-04 15:46   ` Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-05 10:05     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2010-08-04 15:58 ` john stultz
2010-08-04 18:48   ` Chris Friesen
2010-08-05  0:52     ` john stultz
2010-08-05 12:39       ` Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-05 14:10       ` Chris Friesen
2010-08-05 12:33   ` Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-05 21:11     ` john stultz
2010-08-05 21:38       ` Greg KH
2010-08-05 22:22         ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-05 22:34           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-05 22:39             ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-05 22:43               ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-08-05 22:38           ` Greg KH
2010-08-06  7:21             ` Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-06 23:44               ` Greg KH
2010-08-06  7:11           ` Alexander Shishkin
2010-08-06  7:43           ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2010-08-05 22:17       ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-05 22:29         ` john stultz
2010-08-05 22:30           ` john stultz
2010-08-05 23:50           ` Kay Sievers
2010-08-06  0:16             ` john stultz

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