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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] slirp: Use monotonic clock if available
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:40:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6805C2.2050405@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ae48b020907221757i50980003u185b18f1c1940295@mail.gmail.com>

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Ed Swierk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM, malc<av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:
>> This is wrong on many levels.
>>
>> Suppose CLOCK_MONOTONIC(which is wrong _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK ought to
>> be checked) is defined and you compile your binary on, say, Linux 2.6
>> and then try to run it on 2.4 (without any fancy RHEL patches for
>> instance), things wouldn't work, what's worse they wouldn't work
>> silently, giving no indication what's wrong all because nobody checks
>> clock_gettime result for failures.
>>
>> The CLOCK_MONOTONIC presence ought to be checked at runtime
>> (see sysconf(3) and _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK)
> 
> OK, sounds like slirp should just call qemu_get_clock(rt_clock), which
> is supposed to deal with all these complications.

Exactly.

Jan


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      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-22 22:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] slirp: Use monotonic clock if available Ed Swierk
2009-07-22 23:38 ` malc
2009-07-23  0:57   ` Ed Swierk
2009-07-23  6:40     ` Jan Kiszka [this message]

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