[LinuxPPS] multiple access to /dev/ppsN entries

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Wed Mar 17 18:15:36 CET 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:52:03AM -0600, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > I _think_ that I need to have multiple processes accessing the same
> > /dev/ppsN entry -- I'm hoping that you will offer your expert opinion as to
> > whether this is possible.
> > 
> I have run both ntp and my test program at the same time, so there is
> no problem with two separate programs opening /dev/pps0

Unless they set the PPS parameters differently, the first started
application could be receiving something else than it's expecting.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar



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