Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:30:12 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Voyager subarchitecture for 2.5.46 |
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Hi!
> - when the next gettimeofday happens, we can check the sequence number > and the old gettimeofday, and verify that we get monotonic behaviour in > the absense of explicit date setting. This allows us to handle small > problems gracefully ("return the old time + 1 ns" to make it > monotonic even when we screw up), _and_ it will also act as a big clue > for us that we should try to synchronize - so that we basically never > need to worry about "should I check the clocks" (where "basically > never" may be "we check the clocks every minute or so if nothing else > happens")
Unfortunately, this means "bye bye vsyscalls for gettimeofday".
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