adjtimex(2)
NAME
adjtimex - tune kernel clock
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/timex.h> int adjtimex(struct timex *buf);
DESCRIPTION
- Linux uses David L. Mills' clock adjustment algorithm (see RFC 1305).
The system call adjtimex() reads and optionally sets adjustment parameters for this algorithm. It takes a pointer to a timex structure,
updates kernel parameters from field values, and returns the same
structure with current kernel values. This structure is declared as
follows:
- struct timex {
int modes; /* mode selector */
long offset; /* time offset (usec) */
long freq; /* frequency offset (scaled ppm) */
long maxerror; /* maximum error (usec) */
long esterror; /* estimated error (usec) */
int status; /* clock command/status */
long constant; /* pll time constant */
long precision; /* clock precision (usec) (read-only) */
long tolerance; /* clock frequency tolerance (ppm)(read-only) */struct timeval time; /* current time (read-only) */
long tick; /* usecs between clock ticks */ - };
- The modes field determines which parameters, if any, to set. It may contain a bitwise-or combination of zero or more of the following bits:
#define ADJ_OFFSET 0x0001 /* time offset */
#define ADJ_FREQUENCY 0x0002 /* frequency offset */
#define ADJ_MAXERROR 0x0004 /* maximum time error */
#define ADJ_ESTERROR 0x0008 /* estimated time error */
#define ADJ_STATUS 0x0010 /* clock status */
#define ADJ_TIMECONST 0x0020 /* pll time constant */
#define ADJ_TICK 0x4000 /* tick value */
#define ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT 0x8001 /* old-fashioned adjtime() */- Ordinary users are restricted to a zero value for mode. Only the superuser may set any parameters.
RETURN VALUE
- On success, adjtimex() returns the clock state:
- #define TIME_OK 0 /* clock synchronized */
#define TIME_INS 1 /* insert leap second */
#define TIME_DEL 2 /* delete leap second */
#define TIME_OOP 3 /* leap second in progress */
#define TIME_WAIT 4 /* leap second has occurred */
#define TIME_BAD 5 /* clock not synchronized */ - On failure, adjtimex() returns -1 and sets errno.
ERRORS
EFAULT buf does not point to writable memory.
- EINVAL An attempt is made to set buf.offset to a value outside the
- range -131071 to +131071, or to set buf.status to a value other than those listed above, or to set buf.tick to a value outside the range 900000/HZ to 1100000/HZ, where HZ is the system timer interrupt frequency.
- EPERM buf.mode is nonzero and the caller does not have sufficient
- privilege. Under Linux the CAP_SYS_TIME capability is required.
CONFORMING TO
adjtimex() is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs
intended to be portable. See adjtime(3) for a more portable, but less
flexible, method of adjusting the system clock.
SEE ALSO
settimeofday(2), adjtime(3), capabilities(7), time(7)
COLOPHON
- This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.