Re: sysUptime uses gettimeofday

Thank you  Stuart Henderson.


On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 2018/04/03 15:25, Pushpa Thimmaiah wrote:
> > Thank you Magnus Fromreide, Anders Wallin and Stuart Henderson for the
> reply.
> >
> > Stuart Henderson,
> >
> > I am using net-snmp.5.7.1.  Object sysUpTime uses API
> netsnmp_get_agent_uptime() and they
> > inturn uses gettimeofday().
> > If time on device changes after snmpd starts then sysUpTime value is
> confusing.
> > Scenario:
> > 1. Linux device time is  'Mon Aug 28 21:01:29 UTC 2017'
> > 2. start snmpd
> > 3.Now  sysUptime = 4 seconds
> > 4. Set linux device time 'Mon Mar 26 05:53:07 UTC 2018'
> > 5. sysUptime = 209 days  <------ This is not correct in this scenario.
>
> You should update. The latest 5.7 release is 5.7.3 which is already 3
> years old;
> the change to CLOCK_MONOTONIC was done in 5.7.2.
>
>

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