netdev - Re: [PATCH] iputils ping,ping6: use monotonic clock to schedule pings

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Message-ID: <4C98454C.6000602@linux-ipv6.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:40:28 +0900
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	Thomas Habets <thomas@...ets.pp.se>
CC:	Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iputils ping,ping6: use monotonic clock to schedule pings

Hello

(2010/09/05 22:25), Thomas Habets wrote:
> This fixes the problem where when time is set backwards 'ping' appears
> to freeze until the walltime catches up with the previously set time.
> 
> Adds dependency on librt.

Why don't we convert most (if not all) gettimeofday(), then?

--yoshfuji
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