https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61171 Bug ID: 61171 Summary: adjtimex(2): incomplete description of the struct timex Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: matwey.kornilov@xxxxxxxxx Regression: No Hi, I am using 3.46 release of man-pages under openSUSE 12.3. man adjtimex(2) says that struct timex has a member: struct timeval time; /* current time (read-only) */ implying that timeval has two fields: seconds and microseconds (as it described in many places, for instance GLIBC documentation). This misinforms people, and explicit behavior must be reported. Inspection of kernel/time/ntp.c (as for linux 3.7) demonstrates that the second field timex.time.tv_usec may contain nanoseconds instead of microseconds. When timex.status STA_NANO flag is not set, this field contains microseconds, as one expects. The previous is still also true for timex.offset which is stated to be in units of usec. Units of offset also depend on STA_NANO flag. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
