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SubjectRe: Apparent backward time travel in timestamps on file creation
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:35 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> The difference can be quite noticeable - basically the
>> "gettimeofday()" time will interpolate within timer ticks, while
>> "xtime" is just the truncated "time at timer tick" value _without_ the
>> correction.
>
> Is there any way to determine the error bar, do you know? Or do I just make
> up a fudge factor?

Again, I'd utilize clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE, ...) for this
instead of playing with fudge factors.

thanks
-john

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