Re: Avoiding microtime(9) global state

On Jun 30, 2004, at 2:16 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> And example is:
>
>         A given file system operation might want to be tagged with a
>         'time' for global ordering (i.e., so that if time changes,
>         operation is not considered to have occured before another
>         operation when sorting/batching i/o).
>
>         The same file system operation might want to mark a file with
>         current Time of Day (e.g., modify time).
>
> I suspect that trying to use an actual time value and forcing it to
> always increase was an attempt to shoehorn both of those together.

So, perhaps there should be mono_microtime() (for the former), and 
plain-old microtime() for the latter.

...and have fun auditing all the microtime() calls to determine which 
ones should be changed to mono_microtime() :-)

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <[email protected]>