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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Christopher Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:13:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090314161341.GB1496@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090311200411.WPUP4619.eastrmmtao102.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>

On Wed 2009-03-11 10:10:23, Christopher Brannon wrote:
> Under Plan 9 from Bell Labs, one queries or sets the system clock by
> reading or writing text strings to a special file named /dev/time.
> I implemented such a facility for Linux.  A read of /dev/time produces
> four decimal numbers: epoch seconds, nanoseconds since start of epoch,
> nanoseconds since boot, and nanoseconds per second.  Writing a
> decimal number

nanoseconds per second?! Just use 123.456 notation.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11 15:10 [PATCH] /dev/time for Linux, inspired by Plan 9 Christopher Brannon
2009-03-11 21:49 ` Jochen Voß
2009-03-11 22:07 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-03-12  8:00   ` David Newall
2009-03-12 18:15     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-12  9:30 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2009-03-14 16:13 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-03-17 15:15   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-21 22:05     ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-04  3:06 Christopher Brannon
2009-03-06 17:57 ` Greg KH
2009-03-07  5:43   ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-07  5:54     ` Greg KH
2009-03-07 16:08       ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-08 16:03       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-06 22:56 ` john stultz
2009-03-07 16:23   ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-12 18:12     ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-14 23:27       ` Chris Brannon
2009-03-10 11:22 ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-11  7:28 ` Américo Wang

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