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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] replacing gettimeofday with clock_gettime in hw
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] replacing gettimeofday with clock_gettime in hw/serial |
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Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:28:30 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> This patch substitutes gettimeofday with clock_gettime in hw/serial.c.
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> gettimeofday is unsafe because can lead to incorrect behaviors if the user
> changes the system's date.
This code is just plain wrong to start with. Devices should not depend on
host time.
Paul