On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:07:55 -0500 Steve French <smfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Any pointers to background on gettimeofday vs > clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) and why the latter is better? IIUC, the reason for this is that gettimeofday is affected by wallclock changes (think NTP): CLOCK_MONOTONIC Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since some unspecified starting point. ...so by preferring CLOCK_MONOTONIC, the mtab locking code isn't affected by clock jumps or skew. Bjorn, is this correct? -- Jeff Layton <jlay...@samba.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html