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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: Daphne Preston-Kendal <dpk@nonceword.org>
Cc: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug 212265] New: clock_gettime(CLOCK_TAI, ...) should return an error when TAI has not been configured
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 07:18:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210329141809.GA20909@hoboy.vegasvil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2505F20D-ED84-4B36-9504-8A8C756C992E@nonceword.org>

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:56:31AM +0200, Daphne Preston-Kendal wrote:
> > The other is that the kernel updates the offset when a leap
> > second is inserted/deleted even if the original offset is zero, so
> > checking for zero (in the kernel or an application) works only until
> > the first leap second after boot.
> 
> This is a problem and definitely speaks for having a way to tell whether CLOCK_TAI has been set up at all.

+1

Thanks,
Richard


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26 11:13 Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-27  3:28 ` Richard Cochran
2021-03-29  9:16   ` Miroslav Lichvar
2021-03-29  9:56     ` Daphne Preston-Kendal
2021-03-29 14:18       ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2021-03-29 14:21     ` Richard Cochran
2021-03-29 14:26     ` Richard Cochran
2021-03-29 14:57       ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-03-29 15:36         ` Richard Cochran
2021-03-29 18:28           ` Thomas Gleixner

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