On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> > I sympathise with the idea, but your implementation would still print
>> > "funny" times if your machine had been up for more than a day.
>>
>> The perils of rebooting. I tested with an hour, then bumped to a day for
>> margin. But really, I think even up to ten years would work. Any "date" from
>> the 70s is far more likely to be an interval than a timestamp, no?
>
> The purpose of ktrace is to help debugging.
>
> As it stands right now, it is very unreadable.  It is difficult to
> verify timestamps.

I think it would be better to include the clock_t value in the
timespec struct tracing, then branch on that.

Philip Guenther

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