Re: [PATCH 1/1] clock_getres.2: dynamic POSIX clock devices can return other errors

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Hello Eric,

> > > (IEEE 1588 PTP is the canonical user of these dynamic clock devices)
> > >
> > > Would you want to refer to any of these from the man page?
> >
> > See above. I would be happy to add a 2 or 3 sentence note to the page
> > that briefly describes the concept of a POSIX clock. Would you be able
> > to come up with something?
>
> I'll try, but I've never used them, so I'm not convinced I can capture
> the concept clearly.

Cough! I found an old patch in my inbox...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=f377393edddb6321a53c3e5ba516977e04d10445
(plus some edits in some subsequent commits)

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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