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SubjectRe: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> Note that two subsequent calls to gettimeofday() must not return the
> same time even if your CPU runs infinitely fast. I haven't seen any
> kernel in the past few years that fails this test.

i don't see any requirement for this in SuS.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/gettimeofday.html

it'd be a pretty disappointing requirement.

-dean

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