Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:06:23 -0600 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification |
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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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