struct timex and Linux adjtimex()

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Cy Schubert writes:

> I will go back 
> with my initial proposal of a timespec add/subtract syscall takes a 
> timespec as input increments or decrements the clock by the timespec and 
> returns a timespec with the time.

I would be tempted by the clock_settime(2) "clock_id" argument.

The functionality required has a LOT more commonality with
clock_settime(2) than with ntp_adjtime(2), and absconding with a
couple of the top bits of clock_id for "CLOCK_ADD_ADJUSTMENT" and
"CLOCK_SUB_ADJUSTMENT" would be be a pretty clean solution.

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