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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 14:54:12 +0200 From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com> To: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org> Cc: lkml@...r.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org> wrote: > Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might > want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It > might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between > its own and somebody else's time changes. Why not implementing somtehing like http://lwn.net/Articles/323658/ a la plan 9 with a poll callback ? It will be plan9 compatible and so unix Bastien -- 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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