On 04/18/2017 06:31 PM, Zefram wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.74-1
> Severity: minor
>
> adjtimex(2) says:
>
> # struct timex {
> # int modes; /* mode selector */
> # long offset; /* time offset (usec) */
>
> In fact the "offset" field is not necessarily in microseconds. It is
> in either microseconds or nanoseconds, depending on the STA_NANO status
> flag, just like timex.time.tv_usec.
You are looking at a rather old version of man-pages. This was
fixed in upstream quite a long time back (2014). Take a look at
http://man7.org/linux-man-pages/man2/adjtimex.2.html ; does that
version match what you expect?
Cheers,
Michael
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