Re: CLOCK_MONOTONIC in Timers functions

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 06:13:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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.

Ditto.

cgf