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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