ssrg-vt/hermitux

clock_gettime does not return the time offset from the epoch

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olivierpierre commented

See here:

make
./prog
time: 1617052216
make test
# ...
time: 0
olivierpierre commented

This is particularly problematic for programs wanting non-deterministic RNG as srand(time(NULL)) will always initialize the RNG with the same seed, 0.

olivierpierre commented

Fixed in this commit