Re: [PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes

[Chris Friesen]

On 08/04/2010 06:52 PM, john stultz wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 12:48 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>> On 08/04/2010 09:58 AM, john stultz wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a actual use case that you need this for?  I don't really have
>>> an issue with the code I just really want to make sure the feature would
>>> be useful enough to justify the API and code maintenance going forward.
>>
>> We actually added a time-change-notification mechanism internally a long
>> time ago but never saw demand for it and so never bothered trying to
>> push it upstream.  Ours is signal-based.
>>
>> Among other things we use it to pass on time-change notifications to an
>> emulator running a proprietary OS that really cares about having an
>> accurate time-of-day but can't afford a syscall to retrieve it every time.
> 
> So the eventfd based method (and the filtering) proposed would work for
> you? 

The eventfd based method would work.  The filtering is unnecessary for
us and seems somewhat fragile as currently implemented.

Chris

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