From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>,
john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Clock monotonic a suggestion
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:53:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7AA8CD.8070708@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030321025045.GX2835@ca-server1.us.oracle.com
Joel Becker wrote:
> The issue for CLOCK_MONOTONIC isn't one of resolution. The
> issue is one of accuracy. If the monotonic clock is ever allowed to
> have an offset or a fudge factor, it is broken. Asking the monotonic
> clock for time must always, without fail, return the exact, accurate
> time since boot (or whatever sentinal time) in the the units monotonic
> clock is using.
I thought that strictly speaking monotonic just meant that it never went backwards.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-21 5:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-21 0:16 Clock monotonic a suggestion george anzinger
2003-03-21 2:50 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-21 5:53 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-03-21 8:10 ` george anzinger
2003-03-21 8:01 ` george anzinger
2003-03-21 19:43 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-21 20:53 ` john stultz
2003-03-21 13:17 ` Martin Waitz
2003-03-21 19:18 ` george anzinger
2003-03-21 19:46 ` Joel Becker
2003-03-21 19:44 ` Joel Becker
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