[PATCH] use monotonic timer for timeout in pthread instead of system clock

[Thiago Macieira]

Keith Mok wrote:
>+ ? ? ?syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &monotonic_timer);
>+ ? ? ?time_now.tv_sec = monotonic_timer.tv_sec;
>+ ? ? ?time_now.tv_usec = monotonic_timer.tv_nsec / 1000;

Why syscall instead of the POSIX clock_gettime and clock_getres functions?

The chances of those working outside Linux are larger than 0%.

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