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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Time precision, adjtime(x) vs. gettimeofday
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:17:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031008221741.GA1381@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1065619951.25818.15.camel@gaston>

Hi!

> While fixing problems experienced by some scientific users who
> found out that gettimeofday() could sometimes run backward, I

Having time run backward is not really an option; screensavers start
kicking randomly, make has problems, etc, etc.
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 13:32 Time precision, adjtime(x) vs. gettimeofday Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 15:48 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-08 16:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 17:50     ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-08 18:22       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 18:25 ` [PATCH] " Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-08 18:43   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 19:11   ` john stultz
2003-10-08 22:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-10-10  5:12 Bill Fink
2003-10-10  7:33 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-10 16:39   ` Bill Fink
2003-10-10  7:53 ` Ethan Benson
2003-10-11  4:45 Bill Fink
2003-10-11  5:27 ` Ethan Benson
2003-10-11 14:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-14  7:07     ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-14 11:16       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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