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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:55:31 +0200
From: "Salvatore D'Angelo" <dangelo.sasaman@tiscalinet.it>
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Hi,

I am writing a small piece of code that use the gettimeofday routine and 
I have noticed a very strange behaviour. If I call the routine two times 
in sequence I expect that the second value is greater than or equal to 
the first one, but it is not true.

please check the following code.

Sometimes happen that the string "Strange Behaviour" is printed with 
kernel 2.4.18.

I tried to find in the Linux Archive patches to solve this problem,  but 
I didn't find anything (there are emails that talk about gettimeofday, 
but probably they do not answer to my questions).

The same thing happen in Java using the System.currentTimeMillis() routine.

#include <fstream.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

// this routine calculate the current time returning its value in long 
long format.
long long currentTimeMillis() {
   long long t;
   struct timeval tv;

   gettimeofday(&tv, 0);

   t = tv.tv_sec;
   t = (t *1000) + (tv.tv_usec/1000);

   return t;
}

void main() {
   for (;;) {
       long long a = currentTimeMillis();
       long long b = currentTimeMillis();

       if (a>b) {
           cout << "Strange Behaviour" << endl;
       }
   }
}



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