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Synchronization

A synchronization primitive based on Cristian's algorithm (see Section 3.5) is provided.

The $\mathcal{P}$$e$$\mathcal{S}$$t$$\mathcal{O}$ synchronization primitive is:

• long p_time(int flag);

The flag should be used to signal whether the client just wants to get the (estimated) server time, or whether it actually wants to synchronize (i.e., set client time to the estimated server time). A very simple synchronization program is shown in Figure 5.7.