Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-05-03 Thread Matthew Dempsky
I got a few reports from Windows dual-booters that things still work as expected for them, so it seems like it shouldn't cause any issues or break any existing use cases now. ok to commit? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:06:42PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:27:00PM +0400

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:06:42 -0700 Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:27:00PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > > This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as > > second OS. :( > > Okay, here's an alternative diff that only affects gettimeofday() and > settimeofda

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:27:00PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as > second OS. :( Okay, here's an alternative diff that only affects gettimeofday() and settimeofday(). Users can still set the kernel timezone through config(8) or boot_c

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Vadim Zhukov
24 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 20:05 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Peter Hessler wrote: >> On 2012 Apr 24 (Tue) at 16:27:00 +0400 (+0400), Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> :This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as >> :second OS

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Peter Hessler wrote: > On 2012 Apr 24 (Tue) at 16:27:00 +0400 (+0400), Vadim Zhukov wrote: > :This will somewhat break dual-booting machines with Windblows as > :second OS. :( But I'm not a developer and do not have any vote, of > :course. :) Ugh. I didn't realize

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2012 Apr 24 (Tue) at 16:27:00 +0400 (+0400), Vadim Zhukov wrote: :23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky : P=P0P?P8QP0P;: :> There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone :> anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012/04/24 16:27, Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> 23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0Q P5P;Q Matthew Dempsky >> P=P0P?P8Q P0P;: >> > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone >> > anymore. B This is handled in

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Vadim Zhukov
24 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 16:35 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Stuart Henderson P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > On 2012/04/24 16:27, Vadim Zhukov wrote: >> 23 P0P?QP5P;Q B 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0Q P5P;Q Matthew Dempsky >> P=P0P?P8Q P0P;: >> > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone >>

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012/04/24 16:27, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > 23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky > P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone > > anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable, > > and POSIX doesn't

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-24 Thread Vadim Zhukov
23 P0P?QP5P;Q 2012B P3. 21:37 P?P>P;Q P7P>P2P0QP5P;Q Matthew Dempsky P=P0P?P8QP0P;: > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone > anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable, > and POSIX doesn't even define what happens if you pass a non-NULL >

Re: Remove timezone support from the kernel

2012-04-23 Thread Vitali
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > There's no reason for the kernel to track the system's timezone > anymore. B This is handled in userspace by the TZ environment variable, > and POSIX doesn't even define what happens if you pass a non-NULL > pointer as the 'struct timezone