On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:29:05AM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote: > A new syscall is introduced that allows tuning of a POSIX clock. The > syscall is implemented for four architectures: arm, blackfin, powerpc, > and x86. > > The new syscall, clock_adjtime, takes two parameters, the clock ID, > and a pointer to a struct timex. The semantics of the timex struct > have been expanded by one additional mode flag, which allows an > absolute offset correction. When specificied, the clock offset is > immediately corrected by skipping to the new time value. Sorry, last sentence should read, "corrected by adding the given time value to the current time value." Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html