On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:28:24 -0400 Rocco Caputo wrote:
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| If POSIX specifies that times() must return monotonically increasing
| values, then I'm willing to live with FreeBSD (and who knows what other
| operating systems) being broken. They violate POSIX, they deserve it,
| and I can pin the blame elsewhere.
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The POSIX 1003.1 standard HTML repository requires a free regestration.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/times.html
The definiton for clock_t includes a statement that describes a
monotonic clock that does not permit backwards clock jumps. This
clock is described as optional.
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