Re: time: Should real time usage account discontinous jumps?

[Petr Pisar]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:38:19PM +0100, Petr Pisar wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:51:55AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 12/01/2016 12:17 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
> > 
> > > Please excuse resurrecting this old story. I forgot it and now I found it.
> > > Two patches are attached that should implement the idea discuessed in this
> > > thread.
> > > 
> > > The first patch corrects configure.in because the old syntax does not work
> > > with my autotools anymore.
> > 
> > If you're going to modernize configure.in, start by renaming it to
> > configure.ac.
> > 
> I worried it would be too brave for so old code. But nevertheless here is the
> rename.
> 
I found the the patched code cannot detect clock_gettime(2) on systems with
glibc-2.12. That's because the syscall wrapper is provided by "rt" library
there. Attached is a new patch set that fixes even this flaw.

0001-Modernize-configure.in.patch
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0002-Prefer-clock_gettime-CLOCK_MONOTONIC.patch
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