On 01/08/14 02:01, Dirk Buijsman wrote:
> net-snmp seems to use the function "gettimeofday" (see snmp_api.c) to
> find out how much time remains until the next timeout. However, this
> function is not safe as the systemclock could be adjusted by NTP.... The
> recommended way to do timing seems to be "clock_gettime()".
>
> Is this something worth modifying?
I think this was fixed about two years ago. Which Net-SNMP version are
you using and on which operating system ?
commit f8a3ef0d3d4e530279900101049b8de98a44a6fb
Author: Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org>
Date: Mon Feb 6 14:48:52 2012 +0100
CHANGES: snmplib + snmpd + snmpwalk: Avoid that system clock changes
(e.g. by ntpd) affect code that needs relative time
Bart.
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