Re: [PATCH 1/6] UML - Deal with host time going backwards

[Eric W. Biederman]

Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:07:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> So if I change the host's time by an hour, the time will not advance at all
>> on the guest for the next hour? Sounds suboptimal :)
>
> It is, but if the host is whacked, the guest just has to do the best that
> it can...

Could using a CLOCK_MONOTONIC time source fix this?  Those timers do not
change when we change the time on the host.

Eric
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