Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards | From | Nix <> | Date | Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:30 +0100 |
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On 5 Jun 2008, Jeff Dike verbalised: > Aha, I was looking at timer_* and not getting reasonable-looking > results. The one questionable aspect of this is that I need to pull > in a new library (librt) and I wonder how many people don't have it > installed...
It comes with glibc, and even ls uses it (for clock_gettime(), to determine what format to use for date display).
I'd say using it is about as safe as can be.
> Anyway, the patch below seems to make the guest behave reasonably in > the face of the host time doing funky things... > > Give it a spin and let me know how it does. If there aren't any > problems, I'll get it into mainline.
Rebuilding for a test now.
-- `If you are having a "ua luea luea le ua le" kind of day, I can only assume that you are doing no work due [to] incapacitating nausea caused by numerous lazy demons.' --- Frossie
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