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Subject: Re: 1.7.5-1: problem with settimeofday() & gettimeofday()
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On May 26 10:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 04:02:45PM +0300, "??? ??????" wrote:
> >> Hello. It seems that I found a problem with settimeofday() and
> >> gettimeofday() calls in a single context. The problem is that if we
> >> set a new time with settimeofday() call it completes succefully and
> >> system time is updated. But then if we try to get current time with
> >> gettimeofday() call it returns old time!
> >
> >I've looked into 'times.cc' and found that 'hires_ms gtod' timer
> >(which is used in gettimeofday()) is not reset with
> >'hires_ms::prime()' in settimeofday() after system call to Win32 API
> >SetSystemTime() function! I think this is the reason of described
> >behaviour.
> 
> That sounds right.  I'll check in a fix shortly.

What happens in other, parallel processes which are calling gettimeofday
in a loop?


Corinna

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