On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:46:36AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:09:08PM -0800, Scott Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Have you seen the new Linux timerfd API? Where available, you can wait > > for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME events independently. Beats > > heuristics, > > How? I still need to detect time jumps. If my ev_periodic is to be scheduled > every minute, on the minute, and somebody resets the time the timer needs to > be rescheduled. With timerfd I would need to detetc that and remove/insert > the timer again. > > (You might have no use for periodics for timeouts, but they are designed > to solve this very problem :)
timerfd() has good and redundant points... as far as I can tell, it's an inversion of user<>kernel code that results in the same goal. http://lwn.net/Articles/245688/ -cl _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkey.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
