Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:40:15 -0800 (PST) | From | dean gaudet <> | Subject | Re: strange nonmonotonic behavior of gettimeoftheday -- seen similar problem on PPC |
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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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