From: Srinivas Nayak <sinu_nayak2001@yahoo.co.in>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: Is it a bug in Linux time() function or Linux OS calls?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:43:28 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <983251.67335.qm@web7607.mail.in.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B975CB4.4000804@davidnewall.com>
Dear David,
I am not writing to network mounted disk. This is locally mounted and filesystem is ext3.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
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My Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.com
--- On Wed, 10/3/10, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote:
> From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
> Subject: Re: BUG: Is it a bug in Linux time() function or Linux OS calls?
> To: "Srinivas Nayak" <sinu_nayak2001@yahoo.co.in>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 2:17 PM
> Dear Srinivas Nayak,
>
> I don't suppose you're writing to a network mounted disk,
> with the network device's clock about half a second behind
> your test machine? Otherwise -- and I'm just guessing
> here, and will leave it to you to UTSL -- this could be
> explained by use of two different algorithms for converting
> a higher-resolution time source to the one-second
> resolution. A truncation algorithm versus a rounding
> algorithm could produce the result you demonstrate.
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-10 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-10 7:59 BUG: Is it a bug in Linux time() function or Linux OS calls? Srinivas Nayak
2010-03-10 8:47 ` David Newall
2010-03-10 9:13 ` Srinivas Nayak [this message]
2010-03-10 17:19 ` john stultz
2010-03-11 6:10 ` Srinivas Nayak
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