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Re: CLOCK_MONOTONIC in Timers functions
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:13:06 +0200
- Subject: Re: CLOCK_MONOTONIC in Timers functions
- References: <1312398006.6272.6.camel@YAAKOV04>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Aug 3 14:00, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> POSIX requires the Timers functions (timer_create, timer_[gs]ettime,
> etc.) to also support CLOCK_MONOTONIC if the _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK
> option is available. I'm willing to take a look at making this happen
> when I have the chance. (Getting gcc 4.5 out is my first priority now.)
>
> I see that timer.cc uses its own WaitForSingleObject calls instead of
> using cancelable_wait(). Is there a good reason for this, or could this
> be rewritten in terms of the latter?
I don't see a reason to stick to WFMO if using cancelable_wait allows
to extend the timer functions as you propose.
Corinna
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