Re: crond, hwclock, and clockspeed

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:46:29 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libtai
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Lloyd Zusman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm ... couldn't the >25-day case be handled by rw-sleep, which could
> break long intervals into a group of slightly-less-than-25-day
> increments?

It could, but that would interfere with an early wakeup from a manual
SIGALRM, since there's no way to tell where the SIGALRM came from.
I'd rather see the kernel fixed.  Until then, a little extra scripting
will get the job done, and will make the user more aware that some
things (early wakeups) won't work quite the same.


paul