[LinuxPPS] PPS next steps...

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:47:52AM -0500, George Spelvin wrote:
> 
> Yes, of course.  I don't propose changing that, just implementing it as
> two system calls, a poll() to manage the timeout plus a read of some sort.

Ok.

> I'm sorry that I was unclear.  This is not a sysfs file, but rather the
> (proposed) output of "cat /dev/pps0".  The obvious thing to do is make
> it the same as the sysfs files, but that's not essential.
> 
> It's already going to be different in that it outputs multiple lines,
> as long as it's kept open.

Nack. You are definig a policy not a mechanism. Something like this
should be done via sysfs taking into account it specifications.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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