Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:42:52 -0600 | From | "Chris Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: compat_sys_times() bogus until jiffies >= 0. |
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> A possible remedy is to return the ticks since process start time, which > delays the wrap around much further. POSIX only demands consistency > within the same process.
This would be an interesting solution.
The man page for linux states that the return code is time since system boot, so that could realistically be expected to correlate between different processes.
Could we get away with changing the man page and breaking any apps relying on this previously-documented behaviour?
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