On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:06:05 +1000 
 Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> wrote:

 > Konrad Schroder wrote:
 > 
 > > [[ cvs commit details for lfs_cleanerd deleted ]]
 > > 
 > > If "time"
 > > is not monotonically increasing (e.g. clock is slaved to another system)
 > > the optimization will result in segments being treated as corrupt
 > > (uncleanable).
 > 
 > I've wondered about this once or twice in the past.  At a quick glance,
 > it looks like we don't have a monotonic time source in the kernel that
 > won't wrap around.  ticks (in kern_clock.c) comes close, but on a 1024Hz
 > 32 bit machine it wraps around every 24ish days...  This monotonic value
 > could be returned to userland with somethink like Solaris' gethrtime().

We have `mono_time' ... this is like `time', but is monotonically increasing,
hence the name.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>