On Mär 23 2023, William Kennington via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:
> We have systems that start off with inaccurate clocks and at some point > after the boot process synchronize with the network and jump forward in > time. This has the potential to break any scripts that are sitting in > loops, calculating a timeout based on the $SECONDS variable. The current > behavior using realtime instead of monotime is surprising to us. > > It would be nice if $SECONDS was using `clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, > &val)` as it would usually make the most sense when you want to know the > time since the script started. Even CLOCK_MONOTONIC can jump forward. The only requirement is that it doesn't jump backward. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
