Re: $SECONDS and timeout values use realtime `gettimeofday()`

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/24/23 6:19 PM, William Kennington wrote:
> Not worried, it is legitimately a problem for us to the point we are 
> currently patching bash to use the monotonic clock for seconds. It times 
> out stuff in our boot process which executes normally after the time sync 
> has completed and jumped the clock forward. Rght now, we are just patching 
> bash until we can fix all of our uses of $SECONDS. I don't really have a 
> preference for how this gets exposed (updating SECONDS to use the monotonic 
> timer, adding a new variable like MONOSECONDS, or some other call to get 
> monotonic time via clock_gettime).

Interesting. I was wondering how you got onto this, so I looked around for
any utilities (e.g., timeout, sleep), library functions, or system calls
that use the monotonic clock and couldn't find any. It must be too `new';
everyone seems to use the realtime clock.

I'll take it as a feature request.

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