On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:23, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 19:44 +0000, tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> Commit-ID: Â99ee5315dac6211e972fa3f23bcc9a0343ff58c4 >> Gitweb: Â Â http://git.kernel.org/tip/99ee5315dac6211e972fa3f23bcc9a0343ff58c4 >> Author: Â Â Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> AuthorDate: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:16:42 +0200 >> Committer: ÂThomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> CommitDate: Mon, 2 May 2011 21:39:15 +0200 >> >> timerfd: Allow timers to be cancelled when clock was set >> >> Some applications must be aware of clock realtime being set >> backward. A simple example is a clock applet which arms a timer for >> the next minute display. If clock realtime is set backward then the >> applet displays a stale time for the amount of time which the clock >> was set backwards. Due to that applications poll the time because we >> don't have an interface. > > Shouldn't that clock applet use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for the timer anyway? Like: Hey let's meet at the bar 5 hours after bootup? :) Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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