[PATCH] POSIX monotonic clock

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun Aug 8 05:06:00 GMT 2010


On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 10:04 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:32:47AM +0200, V??clav Haisman wrote:
> >This looks like you could get monotonic clock going backwards.
> 
> That's a good point.  We have that very problem here where I work.
> However, Yaakov isn't adding anything new here so, if this is a problem,
> it would be a long-standing one.
> 
> It sounds like it would be trivially solvable by setting the processor
> affinity mask but I'm not sure what that would mean for performance.

So should I hold off on my patch until this can be fixed?


Yaakov




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