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SubjectRe: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification
Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

>>I can get the first sleep. Suppose I oversleep by X nanoseconds. I
>>wake, and get an opaque timeout back. How do I ask for the new wake
>>time to be "endtime + INTERVAL"?
>
>
> endtime.ts += INTERVAL
> [we all know opaque is relative too]

Heh. Okay, then what are the rules about what I'm allowed to do with
endtime? Joe mentioned there was a bit in there somewhere to denote
absolute time.

> Or better, use itimers :)

I as actually thinking in terms of implementing itimers on top of your
new API.

Chris

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