Re: gettimeofday running backwards on 2.4.20

[Daniel Phillips]

On Thu 24 Apr 03 23:41, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Applications like games (but not only games) can get pretty messed up by
> > a timeofday that jumps backwards every couple of seconds.
>
> It's a foolish game that doesn't implement your monotonicity algorithm
> itself...

Maybe so, but on the other hand, game authors could, with some justification, 
accuse kernel developers of being the foolish ones.

There is already code in there that is supposed to fix up the timer: it 
doesn't work very well.

I wonder if SUS or whatnot has anything to say about gettimeofday being 
monotonic, so long as the user does not change the time.

Regards,

Daniel