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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:49:27 +0000 From: Jochen Voß <jochen.voss@...glemail.com> To: Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon@....net> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9 Hi Christopher, 2009/3/11 Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon@....net>: > +/dev/time provides a file-based interface to the system clock. > +Using this interface, one can query or set the system clock by reading or > +writing text strings. A read of /dev/time yields four decimal integers: > +seconds since start of epoch, nanoseconds since start of epoch, > +nanoseconds since boot, and nanoseconds per second. > [...] > +Examples > +-------- > +cat /dev/time > +# Produces: 1236121128 123612012877063000 495497 300, > +# at time of writing on a test machine. The last two numbers in the example seem suspicous to me. 300 nanoseconds per second? I hope this helps, Jochen -- http://seehuhn.de/ -- 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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