On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 08 October 2015 08:23:44 Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > The difference is that with the one-week step the kernel and userspace > > still agree on the current time and it is always valid from the kernel > > point of view, absolute timers can be set, etc. > > Ok, I can see that as an improvement, but it still seems to give > a false sense of safety, and I feel we really should not have any code > rely on this behavior.
Applications are not allowed to rely on system time being sane? To me the current behavior looks like the kernel is throwing the applications off a cliff, while it's the only thing that can fly :). -- Miroslav Lichvar -- 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/
