[LEAPSECS] An example

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4CD07CB5.5090401 at bsdimp.com>, Warner Losh writes:


>A standards compliant system could also be off by 12us.  The 

>application programmer has no way of knowing that error and shouldn't 

>rely on it being smaller than any specific amount.


Well, POSIX doesn't tell you a bound, any contemporary OS has
a way to communicate those statistics if they are known (typically
via Dave Mills' system call)

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