Why doesn't mktspec() use clock_gettime?

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On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 02:03:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> cc Sean Kelly
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/core/sync/config.d#L28
>
> Looks like that use has been disable with static if (false). 
> What was the reason?
>
> A coworker spent a few hours debugging a matter that pointed to 
> this issue. He removed the "false" and replaced CLOCK_REALTIME 
> with CLOCK_MONOTONIC in our druntime tree.
>
> Any insight into the matter? How should we address it by 
> supporting multiple clock types portably?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/998739c