Ondrej Zajicek <santi...@crfreenet.org> wrote on 2010/11/06 19:24:22: > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:54:22PM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > > > > > Just came across > > > > > > Keepalive timer: -22205673/60 > > > > > > Weird, isn't it? > > > > Does bird use gettimeofday() to drive its timers? If so it might > > be a time jump that caused that. > > No, BIRD uses clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ) if available, otherwise > it uses time() (which isn't monotonic, but it is used in Linux 2.4.x > (2.6.x has proper clock_gettime()) and there is a code around it that > eliminates backward time jumps).
You can use ticks = times(NULL) instead of time() I do that in Quagga which runs on our 2.4 boards. You need to work around a bug though to make times() reliable on Linux
