Hello Dmitry, Andrei,
Quoting the draft time_namespaces manual page:
Associated with each time namespace are offsets, expressed with
respect to the initial time namespace, that define the values of
the monotonic and boot-time clocks in that namespace. These off‐
sets are exposed via the file /proc/PID/timens_offsets. Within
this file, the offsets are expressed as lines consisting of three
space-delimited fields:
<clock-id> <offset-secs> <offset-nanosecs>
The clock-id identifies the clock whose offsets are being shown.
This field is either 1, for CLOCK_MONOTONIC, or 7, for CLOCK_BOOT‐
TIME.
What was the reason for exposing numeric clock IDs in the
timens_offsets file? In API terms, that seems a little ugly.
I think it would have been much nicer if the clocks were defined
symbolically in this file. I.e., that reading the file would have
shown something like
monotonic x y
boottime x y
And that records similarly with symbolic clock names could have
been written to the file. Was there a reason not to do this?
Thanks,
Michael
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