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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:11:07 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: strange bug in gettimeofday function
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:00:38AM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>Andrew Makhorin wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>I detected a strange bug in the standard function gettimeofday.
>>It *sometimes* reports the time which being expressed as the integer
>>number of milliseconds is *less* than the time obtained *earlier* with
>>the same function.
>
>If you mean that you call gettimeofday twice and you get different 
>values at each call, with a difference of about 100 ms, then this is all 
>right.  Read on...

As the author of the function in question, I would still like to get a
test case.

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