On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alain Guibert wrote: > 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. obviously true, but this does not imply the next part ... > 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. global configuration files handle this. admins dont really run 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 sounds pretty good -mike
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