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Message-ID: <20090314161341.GB1496@ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:13:41 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9
On Wed 2009-03-11 10:10:23, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> Under Plan 9 from Bell Labs, one queries or sets the system clock by
> reading or writing text strings to a special file named /dev/time.
> I implemented such a facility for Linux. A read of /dev/time produces
> four decimal numbers: epoch seconds, nanoseconds since start of epoch,
> nanoseconds since boot, and nanoseconds per second. Writing a
> decimal number
nanoseconds per second?! Just use 123.456 notation.
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