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From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Subject: Re: CLOCK_MONOTONIC datagram timestamps by the kernel
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:13:50 +0100
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On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:54, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> I like it except changing stamp to stampns all over the place is
> unnecessary, just change the
> type.

Well... After seeing the compat code using casts, I felt some external users 
could try to cast it as well and not detect the new type...

>
> I assume old tcpdump works as expected.

Yes, of course...