From 2cd902f09f523e3a40e2bf1f5f78c9c6caae5821 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Helmuth <christian.helmuth@genode-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:16:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] libc: warn on configuration errors in rtc wrapper

Fixes #1336.
---
 repos/libports/src/lib/libc/rtc.cc | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/repos/libports/src/lib/libc/rtc.cc b/repos/libports/src/lib/libc/rtc.cc
index d9826f2565..fcbfaa341a 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/lib/libc/rtc.cc
+++ b/repos/libports/src/lib/libc/rtc.cc
@@ -31,9 +31,16 @@ time_t Libc::read_rtc()
 {
 	time_t rtc = 0;
 
-	int fd = open(Libc::config_rtc(), O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd == -1)
+	if (!Genode::strcmp(Libc::config_rtc(), "")) {
+		PWRN("%s: rtc not configured, returning %lu", __func__, rtc);
 		return rtc;
+	}
+
+	int fd = open(Libc::config_rtc(), O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd == -1) {
+		PWRN("%s: %s not readable, returning %lu", __func__, Libc::config_rtc(), rtc);
+		return rtc;
+	}
 
 	char buf[32];
 	ssize_t n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));