[systemd-devel] [PATCH] RD_TIMESTAMP: support the value being set from /proc/uptime

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> Well, the thing is that RD_TIMESTAMP is an optional feature anyway, and
> not setting it has no ill effects on things at all. So I am not sure
> what we'd win by supporting something half-way that is optional
> anyway...
>
> What I'd like to avoid here is have people ship this as default in a big
> scale, where they really should get the proper timestamps and nothing
> else.

Ok. I guess that's fair enough.

> If it really bothers people so much that this tool is built from the
> systemd tree I'd suggest they add a feature to /bin/date to format
> CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC as integer. I am sure the maintainers
> of coreutils would accept such a patch (it appears CLOCK_REALTIME is
> already supported to some degree anyway with +%s, so a tiny patch for
> CLOCK_MONOTONIC shouldn't be that hard.). Whether you patch systemd like
> this or coreutils shouldn't really matter, except that with coretuils
> you'd get a correct solution and with /proc/uptime support in systemd
> you don't.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll either submit a patch to
coreutils/busybox to do this or just wait for systemd to achieve world
domination ;-)

Cheers,

Tom