On 2007-03-25 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Oliver Fromme wrote: >> Ideally, two consecutive, non-parallel operations should give >> two different timestamps. That applies to creating or >> touching a file or other kind of resource, or even just >> calling the gettimeofday() function from within the same >> thread, or whatever. In reality that isn't the case today for >> FreeBSD for other reasons, but the timestamp accuracy of UFS2 >> would certainly be sufficient for that. > > Actually, my intend wasn't to use it in filesystems, but > server-client apps, such as games, where 32bit integer timers > must be restarted every 3 weeks
That's a bug in the applications themselves. The gettimeofday() call in any modern UNIX returns a `struct timeval', which contains *both* a time_t value of the current time with second-level accuracy and a tv_usec member with millisecond accuracy (or at least an approximation of a timestamp with millisecond accuracy). Any userlevel application which uses userlevel time counters and requires a restart every two or three weeks, because these userlevel timecounters have rolled back to zero, is broken and should be fixed. _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
