nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Mon Jun 23 2008 - 04:02:56 EST


Thomas,

(I gues you are the right target for this?)

The POSIX.1 specification of nanosleep() says:

But, except for the case of being interrupted by a signal, the
suspension time shall not be less than the time specified by
rqtp, as measured by the system clock CLOCK_REALTIME.


However, reading kernel/hrtimer.c:sys_nanosleep(), it appears that
CLOCK_MONOTONIC is used.

return hrtimer_nanosleep(&tu, rmtp, HRTIMER_MODE_REL, CLOCK_MONOTONIC);

Is there a reason to use CLOCK_MONOTONIC, instead of CLOCK_REALTIME? Is it
intentional? If yes, then I should document this in the man-pages. If not,
then it should be fixed.

Cheers,

Michael


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