[LinuxPPS] Re: [PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:55:20PM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:

> Even better to see:
> 
> #dmesg|grep sending
> gives me:
> 
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID 10052...
> pps_core: start sending reply to ID -4098...
> 
> how come every other (p)ID is negative?

If there are more than one process reading just the first has as ID
its PID, the others get negative numbers... don't ask me why! :)

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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