On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 08:40:31AM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> Michael Kerrisk suggested to replace numeric clock IDs on symbolic
> names.
>
> Now the content of these files looks like this:
> $ cat /proc/774/timens_offsets
> monotonic 864000 0
> boottime 1728000 0
>
> For setting offsets, both representations of clocks can be used.
>
> As for compatibility, it is acceptable to change things as long as
> userspace doesn't care. The format of timens_offsets files is very
> new and there are no userspace tools that rely on this format.
>
> But three projects crun, util-linux and criu rely on the interface of
> setting time offsets and this is why we need to continue supporting the
> clock IDs in this case.
>
> Fixes: 04a8682a71be ("fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets")
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Thomas and Andrew, could you merge this patch? I am sorry, I used the
wrong subsystem prefix. Let me know if I need to send the third version
of this patch.
Thanks,
Andrei
