[Frenzie]

Originally Posted by davidfor

This has been in the firmware for years.

And indeed, when searching online for the next obvious alternative (ioctl RTC_WKALM_SET), what should be the result but a Nickel strace… by me? (See here.)

Now that should be easy to replicate.

Edit: although on second thought, rtcwake is just a frontend to ioctl calls so there would have to be some special magic involved.

Edit 2: but of course it's a fake busybox implementation instead of the real thing. It could just be spewing some nonsense.

Edit 3: nope, real rtcwake says the same thing.