On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I think John Stultz and Thomas Gleixner have already started looking > at how the timekeeping code can be updated. Once that is done, we should > be able to add a functional 64-bit gettimeofday/settimeofday syscall > pair. While I definitely agree this is one of the most basic things to > have, it's also not an area of the kernel that is easy to change.
64-bit clock_gettime / clock_settime instead of gettimeofday / settimeofday should avoid the need for the kernel to have a 64-bit version of struct timeval. (Userspace 64-bit gettimeofday / settimeofday would need to use a combination of the syscalls if the tz pointer is non-NULL.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
