Alexander Nasonov wrote: > 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 was a pilot error. > > 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). I don't see how my issue can be fixed without either adding a new public function (and calling it from ntpd) or changing ntpd code to access /dev/clockctl directly. -- Alex
