Christos Zoulas wrote: > After fork it would work fine, after exec, not so much as the name implies :-)
Ah, you're right. 'step-systime: Bad file descriptor' messages in syslog confused me. > It may be closed by something else, but not the fork. Something else breaks it, I guess. I will look further. > Nevertheless > we should not be exposing new API's here... We should arrange so that > things just work. In this case, you could just call adjtime with a 0 > delta perhaps instead... I don't like adding new public functions either but those functions can be useful (if they are made hidden) because they avoid code repetition and hide __clockctl_fd global variable. I don't think adjtime will work because ntpd still runs as root and it can't drop to an unprivileged user before it calls chroot(2). -- Alex
