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From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Jack Harvard" <jack.harvard@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday() resolution in Linux?
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:41:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260804101041k411b5fcfgc418f4be1bf7edba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a72f6a3c0804100859w4181d84ak1a63e7dec4d5b42f@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Jack Harvard
<jack.harvard@googlemail.com> wrote:
>  Here is an example of gettimeofday results, the time rolls back sometimes.

If the result of gettimeofday() rolls back, and there is no process on
your system that sets the time (like ntpd or hwclock --hctosys) then
this is a kernel bug. Which kernel version are you using, and which
kernel patches have been applied to that kernel ?

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 14:40 Jack Harvard
2008-04-10 15:04 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-04-10 15:35   ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-10 15:59   ` Jack Harvard
2008-04-10 17:41     ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
     [not found]       ` <a72f6a3c0804101057i10c572bak1dd09f0c7fd75d30@mail.gmail.com>
2008-04-10 18:02         ` Bart Van Assche
2008-04-10 15:49 ` Chris Friesen
2008-04-10 16:07 ` Bart Van Assche

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