[Openais] changing gettimeofday to times

[Patrick Caulfield]

Steven Dake wrote:
> If the system time is changed while openais is running the timing system
> gets all out of wack.  This is because gettimeofday returns the current
> time, instead of the number of msec since boot and is used in the tlist
> code.
> 
> There is a mechanism to determine the number of msec since boot which
> appears to be portable.  The posix API is "times" which returns the
> number of clock ticks since system boot.
> 
> The Linux man page says times returns a time value from some time in the
> past but on linux this is the system boot time.
> 
> On BSD or Solaris, is this also the case?  I don't have the man pages to
> check these systems and would like a portable solution.  The other
> possibility is getitimer and setitimer or the posix timer_gettime
> absolute time but I think these posix APIs are not supported on all
> platforms.

>From the Darwin man page for times()


     This interface is obsoleted by getrusage(2) and gettimeofday(2).

     The times() function returns the value of time in CLK_TCK's of a second
     since 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds, January 1, 1970, Coordinated Univer-
     sal Time.


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patrick