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SubjectRe: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
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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....
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