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+[[!meta title="libpthread: CLOCK_MONOTONIC"]]
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+[[!tag open_issue_glibc open_issue_libpthread]]
+
+[[!message-id "201204220058.37328.toscano.pino@tiscali.it"]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-22
+
+ <pinotree> youpi: what i thought would be creating a
+ glib/hurd/hurdtime.{c,h}, adding _hurd_gettimeofday and
+ _hurd_clock_{gettime,settime,getres} to it and making the current .c in
+ sysdeps call those
+ <youpi> yep
+ <youpi> that's unfortunate, but that's what nptl actually does
+ <pinotree> this way we could add inside hurdtime.c the mapped time stuff
+ too
+
+[[Mapped-time_interface|microkernel/mach/gnumach/interface/device/time]].
+
+ <pinotree> most probably a noobish question, but why does rt link to
+ pthread?
+ <youpi> no idea :)
+ <youpi> possibly due to aio implementation
+ <youpi> ./sysdeps/pthread/aio_cancel.c
+ <youpi> probably due to that
+ <youpi> (and others)
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-04-23
+
+ <youpi> pinotree: about librt vs libpthread, don't worry too much for now
+ <youpi> libpthread can lib against the already-installed librt
+ <youpi> it does work
+ <pinotree> youpi: wouldn't that cause a dependency loop?
+ <youpi> pinotree: what dependency loop?
+ <pinotree> youpi: librt wouldd link to pthread, no?
+ <youpi> and ?
+ <youpi> I don't think it's an issue that .so link with each other
+ <pinotree> it isn't?
+ <youpi> well, try
+ * pinotree never did that
+ <youpi> but I don't think it will pose problem
+ <youpi> well, perhaps initialization order
+ <youpi> anyway, I now have packages built, I'll test that
+ <youpi> pinotree: ok, it seems it doesn't work indeed :)
+ <youpi> early in initialization
+ <youpi> pinotree: the initialization bug might actually not be due to librt
+ at all
+ <youpi> pinotree: yes, things work even with -lrt
+ <pinotree> wow
+
+
+## IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-06-04
+
+ <youpi> pinotree: -lrt in libpthread is what is breaking glib2.0
+ <youpi> during ./configure it makes clock_gettime linked in, while at
+ library link it doesn't
+ <youpi> probably for obscure reasons
+ <youpi> I'll have to disable it in debian
+
+
+### IRC, OFTC, #debian-hurd, 2012-06-05
+
+ <pinotree> youpi: i saw your message about the linking issues with
+ pthread/rt; do you want me to provide a patch to switch clock_gettime →
+ gettimeofday in libpthread?
+ <youpi> you mean switch it back as it was previously?
+ <pinotree> kind of, yes
+ <youpi> I have reverted the change in libc for now
+ <pinotree> ok
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-07-22
+
+ <tschwinge> pinotree, youpi: I once saw you discussing issue with librt
+ usage is libpthread -- is it this issue? http://sourceware.org/PR14304
+ <youpi> tschwinge: (librt): no
+ <youpi> it's the converse
+ <pinotree> tschwinge: kind of
+ <youpi> unexpectedly loading libpthread is almost never a problem
+ <youpi> it's unexpectedly loading librt which was a problem for glib
+ <youpi> tschwinge: basically what happened with glib is that at configure
+ time, it could find clock_gettime without any -lrt, because of pulling
+ -lpthread, but at link time that wouldn't happen
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-07-23
+
+ <braunr> pinotree: oh, i see you changed __pthread_timedblock to use
+ clock_gettime
+ <braunr> i wonder if i should do the same in libthreads
+ <pinotree> yeah, i realized later it was a bad move
+ <braunr> ok
+ <braunr> i'll stick to gettimeofday for now
+ <pinotree> it'll be safe when implementing some private
+ __hurd_clock_get{time,res} in libc proper, making librt just forward to
+ it and adapting the gettimeofday to use it
+
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-10-22
+
+ <pinotree> youpi: apparently somebody in glibc land is indirectly solving
+ our "libpthread needs lirt which pulls libphtread" circular issue by
+ moving the clock_* functions to libc proper
+ <youpi> I've seen that yes :)
+
+[[!sourceware_PR 14304]], [[!sourceware_PR 14743]], [[!message-id
+"CAH6eHdQRyTgkXE7k+UVpaObNTOZf7QF_fNoU-bqbMhfzXxXUDg@mail.gmail.com"]], commit
+6e6249d0b461b952d0f544792372663feb6d792a (2012-10-24).