Re: RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions

[David Brownell]

> > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# cat wakealarm 
> > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# echo 132719 > wakealarm 
> > 
> > At which point I'd expect
> > 
> > # echo $?
> > 
> > would indicate the write failed.  That's a LONG time in the
> > past (January 2, 1970), so that setting would be rejected.
>
> echo $? says 0 here :-(.

I stand corrected.  What it should do -- and does -- in that case
involves disabling the alarm, then succeeding.

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