libtai versus xtime
Paul Eggert
eggert at twinsun.com
Mon Oct 5 21:02:14 UTC 1998
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:43:30 +0100
From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk>
"D. J. Bernstein" wrote on 1998-10-03 02:23 UTC:
> In libtai, tai_now() and taia_now() always succeed.
I think this claim is a bit unrealistic.
But do you agree that Bernstein's library could be used to implement a
version of xtime_get(...,TIME_TAI) that always succeeds, so long as it
never sets the TIME_SYNC bit of the result? In other words, so long
as xtime_get never _claims_ to be accurate within 1 s, it would
conform to your spec.
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