Re: [PATCH] Build hwclock on non-Linux

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Fabian Groffen, le Wed 02 Mar 2011 08:45:21 +0100, a écrit :
> On 02-03-2011 03:07:35 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Thanks to the direct ISA method, hwclock can work fine on non-Linux
> > without the /dev/rtc device and the associated get/set epoch
> > functionality.
> > 
> > GNU/Hurd however needs to use ioperm instead of iopl, which it doesn't
> > implement.
> 
> "It works on GNU/Hurd" is something different from "works fine on
> non-Linux".

It would also work on cygwin, kfreebsd/gnu, etc. That is, a lot of
projects which usually make use of the util-linux package to benefit
from its various tools.

> Both calls are unavailable to me, being on "non-Linux".
> Not that I intend to build this tool.

We could make it depending on the presence of iopl or ioperm then.

Samuel
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