<div dir="ltr">Apparently there was once a patch regarding time namespaces @<br><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/179825/">https://lwn.net/Articles/179825/</a> but it has vanished.<br><br>For wont of a better place to ask - does anyone know if we'll see that<br>
back soon?<br><br>Reason for quest: I am trying to run an NTP server in an LXC container<br>and would prefer not to have to grant the container CAP_SYS_TIME -<br>rather I would prefer that if CAP_SYS_TIME were absent then time<br>
manipulation would affect the container only, ie. using time<br>namespaces, or if time namespaces were not available, it would fail<br>(as occurs presently when CAP_SYS_TIME is dropped for a container).<br><br>Any idea if we are likely to see any features like this at some point soon?<br>
<br>This would also make LXC a whole lot more useful to simulate some WAN<br>configurations (in combination with the sophisticated capabilities of<br>the networking stack, re: latencies, lossiness, traffic generation,<br>
etc.) which is potentially something we are looking at shortly.<br><br>It would also make LXC really useful for stimulating weird,<br>time-related bugs in automated software testing (there's a whole lot<br>of those out there!)<br>
<br>I do realize that most people these days tend toward UTC for the<br>system clock .. I still see a time namespace as valuable, though,<br>for the above reasons.<br><br>- Walter<br></div>