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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2014 02:55:30 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        trociny@freebsd.org, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r265472 - head/bin/dd
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1405090250540.85974@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CAOtMX2h_%2B1G18Nv5JvDE0H7_TZ96p81JotOwhq1Jm-dOOeahPw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201405062206.s46M6dxW060155@svn.freebsd.org> <20140507113345.B923@besplex.bde.org> <CAOtMX2h_%2B1G18Nv5JvDE0H7_TZ96p81JotOwhq1Jm-dOOeahPw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 7 May 2014, Alan Somers wrote:

[snip]

> Even if nanosecond resolution isn't useful, monotonicity is.  Nobody
> should be using a nonmonotonic clock just to measure durations.  I
> started an audit of all of FreeBSD to look for other programs that use
> gettimeofday to measure durations.  I haven't finished, but I've
> already found a lot, including xz, ping, hastd, fetch, systat, powerd,
> and others.  I don't have time to fix them, though.  Would you be
> interested, or do you know anyone else who would?

>From your list, hastd seems to be the most dangerous point to me.

Adding trociny@ as one of the most active hastd-related committers so the issue 
would not be lost in the areas...

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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