On Thursday, January 8, 2009 2:13 am Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:34:42AM -0800, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:11 -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:54 am Keith Packard wrote:
> > > > > +libdrm_la_LIBADD = -lrt
> > > >
> > > > I fear you'll need autoconf-fu for this?
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise, it looks like a reasonable plan.
> > >
> > > I'm but an autoconf grasshopper.  If there's a better way of doing this
> > > I'm open to suggestions.
> >
> > Paraphrased slightly from server configure.ac:
> >
> > AC_CHECK_FUNCS([clock_gettime], [CLOCK_LIB=],
> >                [AC_CHECK_LIB([rt], [clock_gettime], [CLOCK_LIB=-lrt],
> >                              [AC_MSG_ERROR([Couldn't find
> > clock_gettime])])]) AC_SUBST([CLOCK_LIB])
>
> You probably want to get the entire clock_gettime awesomeness, to avoid
> the pathological worst case of rewinding the clock during a wait which
> is destined to time out: rewind the clock 11h, 0.5sec into the wait, and
> you'll be blocked for 11h and 0.5sec.  CLOCK_MONOTONIC ftw.

CLOCK_MONOTONIC isn't supposed to go backwards though; it can't be set (at 
least according to spec).  So I must be missing something here...

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center

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