Re: $SECONDS and timeout values use realtime `gettimeofday()`

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/23/23 8:42 PM, William Kennington via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne 
Again SHell wrote:
> We have systems that start off with inaccurate clocks and at some point
> after the boot process synchronize with the network and jump forward in
> time. This has the potential to break any scripts that are sitting in
> loops, calculating a timeout based on the $SECONDS variable. The current
> behavior using realtime instead of monotime is surprising to us.

So the system jumps forward in time at some random point, after the shell
script has started and $SECONDS has been initialized. You're worried that
these scripts will hit their timeout too quickly?

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