Re: [PATCH] fix vsyscall settimeofday

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 08:56 -0800, Daniel Walker wrote: > I've only seen this on x86_64 . > > The vsyscall state only gets updated when a timer interrupts comes in . So > if the time is set long before the next timer, there will be a period when > a gettimeofday() won't reflect the correct time. >

[PATCH] fix vsyscall settimeofday

I've only seen this on x86_64 . The vsyscall state only gets updated when a timer interrupts comes in . So if the time is set long before the next timer, there will be a period when a gettimeofday() won't reflect the correct time. I added an explicit update_vsyscall() during the settimeofday(), t