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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: pavel@ucw.cz
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alessandro.zummo@towertech.it
Subject: Re: RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:15:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003021537.208621F9CA8@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071002093641.GA11039@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>

> > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# cat wakealarm 
> > > > root@amd:/sys/class/rtc/rtc0# echo 132719 > wakealarm 
> > 
> > At which point I'd expect
> > 
> > # echo $?
> > 
> > would indicate the write failed.  That's a LONG time in the
> > past (January 2, 1970), so that setting would be rejected.
>
> echo $? says 0 here :-(.

I stand corrected.  What it should do -- and does -- in that case
involves disabling the alarm, then succeeding.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-03  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 10:32 RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions Pavel Machek
2007-09-20 10:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-09-22  5:38   ` David Brownell
2007-10-02  9:36     ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-03  2:15       ` David Brownell [this message]
2007-11-28 23:26     ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-29  8:02       ` Tino Keitel
2007-11-29 18:10       ` David Brownell
2007-11-29 18:14         ` Alessandro Zummo
2007-11-30 20:35         ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-30 21:10           ` David Brownell
2007-11-30 21:20             ` Mark Lord
2007-11-30 21:27               ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 11:36             ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 16:03               ` David Brownell
     [not found]     ` <20071128230451.GA1547@elf.ucw.cz>
2007-11-28 23:26       ` Pavel Machek

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