On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:25, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:36:51 +0200 > Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Changes since v3: >> - changed timerfd_settime() semantics (see below) >> Changes since v2: >> - replaced sysfs interface with a syscall >> - added sysctl/procfs handle to set a limit to the number of users >> - fixed issues pointed out by Greg. >> Changes since v1: >> - updated against 2.6.36-rc1, >> - added notification/filtering options, >> - added Documentation/ABI/sysfs-kernel-time-notify interface description.
> It would be helpful to know if the identified users of this feature > actually find it useful and adequate. I guess the most common > application is the 1,001 desktop clock widgets. Do you have any > feedback from any of the owners of those? We want it for systemd, to provide cron-like functionality but without the need to stupidly wake up every minute and check the system time for possible jumps. It also sounds useful for a generic resume (after system suspend) notification for applications, which isn't really possible today. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
