My bad, I am using 5.6.1 on a uClinux platform. I check the 5.7.2 release and
it indeed is using a different method (timerisset, timeradd, etc).
Cheers,Dirk
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 08:27:59 +0100
> From: bvanass...@acm.org
> To: dirkjur...@hotmail.com; net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: net-snmp uses gettimeofday instead of clock_gettime()
>
> 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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