On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:07:55 -0500
Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Any pointers to background on gettimeofday vs
> clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) and why the latter is better?
IIUC, the reason for this is that gettimeofday is affected by wallclock
changes (think NTP):
CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since
some unspecified starting point.
...so by preferring CLOCK_MONOTONIC, the mtab locking code isn't
affected by clock jumps or skew. Bjorn, is this correct?
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx>
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