Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
Picking it up.
