CLOCK_MONOTONIC in Timers functions

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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