linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards

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Date:	Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:30 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
Cc:	dhazelton@...er.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards

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.

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