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Message-ID: <20071002093641.GA11039@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:36:41 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc: rtc-linux@...glegroups.com,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@...ertech.it>
Subject: Re: RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions
Hi!
> > > ...should they be changed to 200? Or perhaps file should be readable?
>
> No, mode 644 is fine. No reason to prevent "other" people from
> reading the alarm time (is there?) and if you write a legal value,
> that will work. So $SUBJECT is no problem at all.
Yep, agreed. I was confused by fact that it does not give invalid
values back.
> > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# cat wakealarm
> > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# echo 132719 > wakealarm
>
> At which point I'd expect
>
> # echo $?
>
> would indicate the write failed. That's a LONG time in the
> past (January 2, 1970), so that setting would be rejected.
echo $? says 0 here :-(.
> > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0#
> > >
> > > ...standard PC with reasonably recent kernel...
>
> Yeah, well a "standard PC" is chock full of fairly bizarrely
> glitchey hardware. Clocks and timers have more than their
> fair share, or x86_64 NOHZ support would be merged by now!
:-). Ok. Thinkpad x60.
Pavel
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