[PATCH] Make ppc64-linux use VDSO gettimeofday instead of time syscall

[Ulrich Drepper]

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On 03/25/2010 08:15 AM, Steve Munroe wrote:
> What is your specific concern with correctness and this approach?

If the time users, one using the syscall and one using gtod see
non-monotonic times this is a disaster.  They can be in different
processes.  Or in the kernel (file timestamps).  This has happened and I
am not sure this patch doesn't create such a situation.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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