In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Fin ch writes: >On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> >> OSes usually deal with timestamps all the time for various things. To >> find out how much CPU to bill a process, to more mondane things. >> Having to do all these gymnastics is going to hurt performance. > >That's why leap second handling should be done in userland as part of the >conversion from clock (scalar) time to civil (broken-down) time.
I would agree with you in theory, but badly designed filesystems like FAT store timestamps in encoded YMDHMS format, so the kernel need to know the trick as well. (There are other examples, but not as well known). -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
