Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:22:40 +0100
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
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Hi!

> 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,
> jiffies since boot, and jiffies per second.  Writing a decimal
> number to

Jiffies are strange... and I guess time should be exported as 123.456
(seconds . fractional part). That way we are not limited to
nanoseconds...

Same interface can be used for setting precise time...
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