Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost> writes: > Some codes in sys/net* use time_second to > manage time periods such as cache expirations. > However, time_second doesn't increase monotonically > and can leap by say settimeofday(2) according to > time_second(9). We should use time_uptime > instead of it to avoid such time leaps. > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/use-time_uptime.diff Generally this sounds sensible. One thing to consider is whether this change results in leaking uptime to hosts over the network. (That could be used to help identify roving hosts.)
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