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

From: Bastien ROUCARIES
Date: Wed Aug 04 2010 - 08:54:27 EST


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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