On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:12:17PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Fabian Groffen, le Wed 02 Mar 2011 08:45:21 +0100, a Ãcrit :
> > 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.
Yes, please.
Karel
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