On 2012-04-05 14:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 05/04/2012 14:53, malc ha scritto: >> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >>> Il 05/04/2012 14:30, malc ha scritto: >>>>>> Would save that "* 1000". I just wondered why we do not use it elsewhere >>>>>> in QEMU and was reluctant to risk some BSD breakage. >>>>>> >>>> It's probably worth mentioning that using anything other than >>>> clock_gettime and CLOCK_MONOTONING (as well as setting proper pthread >>>> clock attr on the condition variable) is prone to the surprises (such >>>> as NTP corrections and daylight saving changes). >>> >>> I was about to suggest the same, but how widespread is support for >>> pthread_condattr_setclock? >> >> If it's not all is lost anyway. > > Only once every year. :)
...and not for the current user of this service which do not care that much about the timeout and a potential delay or early shot. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
