From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 22:55:41 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09D45EC7; Thu, 8 May 2014 22:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BCE8E8D; Thu, 8 May 2014 22:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s48MtUt7091470; Fri, 9 May 2014 02:55:30 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 02:55:30 +0400 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Alan Somers Subject: Re: svn commit: r265472 - head/bin/dd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <201405062206.s46M6dxW060155@svn.freebsd.org> <20140507113345.B923@besplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Fri, 09 May 2014 02:55:30 +0400 (MSK) Cc: trociny@freebsd.org, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "src-committers@freebsd.org" , Bruce Evans X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 22:55:41 -0000 On Wed, 7 May 2014, Alan Somers wrote: [snip] > Even if nanosecond resolution isn't useful, monotonicity is. Nobody > should be using a nonmonotonic clock just to measure durations. I > started an audit of all of FreeBSD to look for other programs that use > gettimeofday to measure durations. I haven't finished, but I've > already found a lot, including xz, ping, hastd, fetch, systat, powerd, > and others. I don't have time to fix them, though. Would you be > interested, or do you know anyone else who would? >From your list, hastd seems to be the most dangerous point to me. Adding trociny@ as one of the most active hastd-related committers so the issue would not be lost in the areas... -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------