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Monotonic clocks are guaranteed never to go backwards, for one. In POSIX it would be a major violation of the API, although implementations are free to substitu
by jschwartzi 11y ago
Monotonic clocks are guaranteed never to go backwards, for one. In POSIX it would be a major violation of the API, although implementations are free to substitute clock sources if the monotonic source is not provided.
- derefr 11y agoOr, to put it more bluntly: a hypervisor that allows its VMs to be paused SHOULD NOT expose a monotonic time source to said VMs. (In the RFC meaning of "SHOULD NOT".) Enabling monotonic time should disable the ability to pause/migrate/snapshot the VMs, and vice-versa.