On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:19:55PM +0100, Alain Guibert wrote:
> 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
the definition is "a command line option to override a default path"
> make much sense, and would be prone to mismatches between various
> scripts, or be forgotten when the user invokes hwclock by hand.
The command line option should be optional. I think 99% of all users
is fine with /etc/adjtime.
It's always bad thing when you can't change a setting (e.g. paths)
without recompilation.
> I think that searching both places and picking the first file found
Yes. Maybe the default could be more than one path.
I don't see a problem to support /etc/adjtime, /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
and --adjfile.
Karel
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