On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:57:25PM -0400, George Nychis wrote: > Is there any way to get an approximate amount of time that has elapsed > since a timeout has been scheduled? Or better yet, a way to pause a timer?
Nope. > This is extremely useful for backoff periods in MAC contention protocols. > Where, for instance, the timer is only decremented when the channel is > considered idle. The best method would be a way to pause it. The > alternative would be to find the time passed, cancel it, and then when the > channel becomes idle to schedule another timer with the amount of remaining > time. How often are you checking for channel idle? Couldn't you just cancel and schedule a new one each time you check for channel idle? > After checking mb_mblock.h, I don't think any of this is readily > available... can either of these can be simply implemented? If so, can you > pass along some advice? :) > > Thanks! > George Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
