[LinuxPPS] Re: Can't configure multiple pps sources in ntpd

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:13:25PM -0400, linux at horizon.com wrote:
> 
> I confess I don't understand this statement at all.  Section 2 of
> Unix manuals are dedicated to documenting function calls for talking
> to kernel-land.  They use a different calling convention than pure
> user-space function calls, but they're still far more direct.

When you use fprintf() you use a function which in turn _must_ use
some system calls to talk with kernel land.

I don't know if exists a netlink library but it must use some system
calls to implements its functions.

I decided to not use any library in order to keep PPS API simple.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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