> Do applications call into the vdso directly and expect to get a timespec > out? If they always go through the C library as an intermediate, then > the glibc clock_gettime() could do the conversion.
It is recommended that applications do not call vdso symbols directly. According to manpage: "If you're trying to call the vDSO in your own application rather than using the C library, you're most likely doing it wrong." -Deepa