Re: RFD: nanoseconds in the kernel, POSIX.4, cleanups

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:42:41 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> Is anybody interested in helping me or testing this very experimental
> stuff soon? (Together with other changes made for the NTPv4 clock
> model, binary compatibility with old executables had to be broken:
> especially adjtime() and ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT occupy a different bit
> position now, causing the old adjtime() to be a no-op. I took the
> chance to cleanup the whole mess.)

Are you sure this is really necessary? Isn't this something glibc could
hide?

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