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Message-ID: <87k5h392bd.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> 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. -- `If you are having a "ua luea luea le ua le" kind of day, I can only assume that you are doing no work due [to] incapacitating nausea caused by numerous lazy demons.' --- Frossie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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