Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:23:42 -0400 |
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:08:55 +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mattias Engdeg=E5rd?= said: > >Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> >Absolute timestamps are messy though. How do you deal with system time > >changes? > > Monotonic clocks are there for exactly that, no?
Monotonic clocks are guaranteed to not go backward. A sudden warp 35 seconds into the future when you have timers set for 15 and 20 seconds into the future is still ugly.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |