Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:53:17 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Clock monotonic a suggestion |
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Joel Becker wrote:
> The issue for CLOCK_MONOTONIC isn't one of resolution. The > issue is one of accuracy. If the monotonic clock is ever allowed to > have an offset or a fudge factor, it is broken. Asking the monotonic > clock for time must always, without fail, return the exact, accurate > time since boot (or whatever sentinal time) in the the units monotonic > clock is using.
I thought that strictly speaking monotonic just meant that it never went backwards.
Chris
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