Hello Karel, On Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 3:38:08 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > a command line option would be nice. Under normal conditions, on a given machine, each and every invocation of hwclock has to use the same adjtime file. Using different files would give wrong results. So a command line option to select a file doesn't make much sense, and would be prone to mismatches between various scripts, or be forgotten when the user invokes hwclock by hand. I think that searching both places and picking the first file found would be better. Perhaps overriden by a compile-time option forcing one place, or a list of places to search. Itself overriden by ADJTIME_PATH in environment. This way, the sysadmin creates once an adjtime file where it prefers, and it will be picked automatically by all future hwclock invocations. Systems with permanently readonly roots can use /var and delay hwclock until after it's mounted; systems with writable roots can continue to use /etc, or /var if it's the same partition. Alain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
