On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:53 -0400, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 05:31:27PM -0700, john stultz wrote: > > Looks interesting. I've never quite understood the need for different > > time domains, it only allows you to run one domain with the incorrect > > time, but I'm sure there is some use case that is desired. > > There are a few possible answers - > > If when this virtualization stuff is done, no one has done anything with > time, someone is going to moan.
Apparently its like painting a wall then, no? "You missed those spots over there!" :) > Once in a while, you want to fiddle your system clock to make sure that > a cron job or something does what it's supposed to. > > There was some extra infrastructure that UML needed in order to start using > this stuff, so I chose a fairly simple virtualization case to accompany it. > > > I'm not psyched about possible namespace vs nanosecond confusion w/ > > terms like "time_ns", but that's pretty minor. > > Yeah, names can be changed. Well, as long as its pretty isolated its not such a big deal. Just figured I'd bring it up as a consideration. > > Also I hope you're not wanting to deal w/ NTP adjustments between > > domains that have the incorrect time? That would be very ugly. > > No, the domain stores an offset from the system time, so it automatically > gets the system's NTP adjustments. Ok, as long as you don't intend to go down that path, these patches looks pretty harmless. thanks -john ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
