Oct. 5, 1998
9:02 p.m.
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 11:43:30 +0100 From: Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> "D. J. Bernstein" wrote on 1998-10-03 02:23 UTC:
In libtai, tai_now() and taia_now() always succeed.
I think this claim is a bit unrealistic. But do you agree that Bernstein's library could be used to implement a version of xtime_get(...,TIME_TAI) that always succeeds, so long as it never sets the TIME_SYNC bit of the result? In other words, so long as xtime_get never _claims_ to be accurate within 1 s, it would conform to your spec.