It was added in 2.6.39, and causes an assertion to fail when running in mock
hosted on 2.6.23-based RHEL-6:
Assertion 'clock_gettime(map_clock_id(clock_id), &ts) == 0' failed at systemd/src/basic/time-util.c:70, function now(). Aborting.
/* Some more exotic archs (s390, ppc, …) lack the "ALARM" flavour of the clocks. Thus, clock_gettime() will
* fail for them. Since they are essentially the same as their non-ALARM pendants (their only difference is
* when timers are set on them), let's just map them accordingly. This way, we can get the correct time even on
- * those archs. */
+ * those archs.
+ *
+ * Also, older kernels don't support CLOCK_BOOTTIME: fall back to CLOCK_MONOTONIC. */
switch (c) {
+ case CLOCK_BOOTTIME:
case CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM:
- return CLOCK_BOOTTIME;
+ return clock_boottime_or_monotonic ();
case CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM:
return CLOCK_REALTIME;