Re: Clock monotonic a suggestion

From: Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:53:17 EST

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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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