On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:57 AM Cyril Hrubis <chru...@suse.cz> wrote: > > According to patch description [1] and time_namespaces documentation > > [2] the CLOCK_REALTIME is not supported (for now?) to avoid complexity > > and overhead in the kernel. ... > > To be more specific - [if this were supported] it would be possible to > > modify time after time_t > > 32 bit overflow (i.e. Y2038 bug) on the process running Y2038 > > regression tests on the host system (64 bit one). By using Linux time > > namespaces the system time will not be affected in any way. > > And what's exactly wrong with moving the system time forward for a > duration of the test?
Interference with other processes on the same computer? Some of us *do* like to run the glibc test suite on computers not entirely devoted to glibc CI. zw
