Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763720AbXHWUIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:08:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755434AbXHWUIL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:08:11 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:35338 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756883AbXHWUIK (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:08:10 -0400 Message-ID: <46CDE914.1030400@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:07:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerald Britton CC: Michael Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Wingo Subject: Re: gettimeofday() jumping into the future References: <3c1737210708230408i7a8049a9m5db49e6c4d89ab62@mail.gmail.com> <20070823113648.GA5405@zante.sekrit.org> In-Reply-To: <20070823113648.GA5405@zante.sekrit.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 481 Lines: 13 Gerald Britton wrote: > I have seen this as well (on a 2.6.20.4 kernel). The value returned was > always identical each time the glitch occured (just a little over 4398 > seconds). I would guess an off by 2^32 error is at play. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/