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George Anzinger authored
As required by the standard, this patch adds to POSIX ABSOLUTE timers the functionality of adjusting the timer when the clock is set so that it still expires at the specified time (provided that time has not passed, in which case the timer expires immeadiatly). The standard is, IMNSOHO, a bit vague on just how repeating timers are to be handled so I made some choices: 1) If an absolute timer is to expire every N intervals, we assume that the expiries should happen at those specified times after clock setting. I.e. we adjust the repeat timer as well as the initial timer. (The other option would be to treat the repeating timers as relative and not to adjust them.) 2) If a clock set moves the the clock prior to the initial expiry time AND that time has already passed and been signaled, the current repeat timer is adjusted, i.e. we DO NOT go back to the initial time and repeat that. (The other option is to treat this case as a new request with the initial timer parameters (which by this time we have lost).) 3) If time is advanced such that it appears that several expiries have been missed, the overrun count will reflect the misses. (The other option is to not reflect this in the overrun.) At the same time, nothing is done to acknowledge, to the user, that we are repeating expiries when the clock is retarded. Signed-off-by: George Anzinger <george@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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