Re: `do_gettimeoffday' broken on i686 SMP

Stanislav Meduna (stano@trillian.eunet.sk)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:49:03 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

> while(1) {
> int oldsec = t.tv_sec;
> // gettimeofday(&t, NULL);
> syscall(SYS_gettimeofday, &t, NULL);
> if (t.tv_sec<oldsec)
> printf("TIME ERROR: %ds\n", oldsec-t.tv_sec);
> }

Don't know exactly what TSC and this stuff is, but I had
a very similar problem with time going backward on uniprocessor
Pentium II running Windows NT when using QueryPerformanceCounter
(the situation was quite catastrophic for our software and
I spent a day hunting for this gem).

Regards

--
					Stano

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