Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:43:28 +0530 (IST) | | From | Srinivas Nayak <> | | Subject | Re: BUG: Is it a bug in Linux time() function or Linux OS calls? |
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Dear David,
I am not writing to network mounted disk. This is locally mounted and filesystem is ext3.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely, Srinivas Nayak
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--- On Wed, 10/3/10, David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> wrote: > From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com> > Subject: Re: BUG: Is it a bug in Linux time() function or Linux OS calls? > To: "Srinivas Nayak" <sinu_nayak2001@yahoo.co.in> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Date: Wednesday, 10 March, 2010, 2:17 PM > Dear Srinivas Nayak, > > I don't suppose you're writing to a network mounted disk, > with the network device's clock about half a second behind > your test machine? Otherwise -- and I'm just guessing > here, and will leave it to you to UTSL -- this could be > explained by use of two different algorithms for converting > a higher-resolution time source to the one-second > resolution. A truncation algorithm versus a rounding > algorithm could produce the result you demonstrate. > > Regards, > > David >
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