[PATCH] hwclock: separate invocations settimeofday time&zone

Norbert Lange nolange79 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 12:01:05 UTC 2020


Am Mo., 20. Juli 2020 um 19:12 Uhr schrieb Lukasz Serafin
<Lukasz.Serafin at axis.com>:
>
> "So this will just silently stop to work if someone upgrades glibc?"
>
> Yes, unfortunately that is how it is.
>
> "Whats the downside by just always doing it the 'new way' "
>
> Good question. We have the "#if" because of a comment by Markus Gothe:
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> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2020-July/088083.html

This explains the code guarded by the ' #if',
but why can't this code be used unconditionally. It will work with
v2.31 *and* lower versions.

Norbert


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