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| author | Zhaoming Luo <zhmingluo@163.com> | 2025-01-02 09:55:23 +0800 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2025-01-02 11:22:54 +0100 |
| commit | aedaf285a0809cdf16f30fd07120b3f24954b6b4 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d652197233d9eb93d7906900469d3bc1429571c | |
| parent | 4f8b7ec44c90a7f64ede667d1eb3b75c10dbac51 (diff) | |
Translator: Add the introduction to the rtc translator
* hurd/translator.mdwn: Add an entry for the rtc translator
* hurd/translator/rtc.mdwn: Add the introduction to the rtc translator
Message-ID: <20250102015524.1253093-1-zhmingluo@163.com>
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diff --git a/hurd/translator.mdwn b/hurd/translator.mdwn index 324c5f8c..fe669a12 100644 --- a/hurd/translator.mdwn +++ b/hurd/translator.mdwn @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ The [[concept|concepts]] of translators creates its own problems, too: * [[term]] * [[checkperms]] * [[usermux]] +* [[rtc]] * ... diff --git a/hurd/translator/rtc.mdwn b/hurd/translator/rtc.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7a917b46 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/rtc.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +The *rtc* translator implements a real-time clock driver. It can be used to add +the `rtc` device files, with those files, we can access the underlying +real-time clock using `ioctl()`. The description of `ioctl()` can be found +[here](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/IOCTLs.html). + +The operation macros are required to access the real-time clock. They are +defined as `RTC_*` in `hurd/rtc.h`. + +The `hwclock` command from `util-linux` can use the `rtc` device files to +access the real-time clock devices. + +# Usage Example +Setup a `rtc` device file in `/tmp`: + + settrans -c /tmp/rtc /hurd/rtc + +Read the time value through the `rtc` device file: + + int fd = open("/tmp/rtc", O_RDONLY); + struct rtc_time time; + ioctl(fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &time); |