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Re: [PATCH] clock_nanosleep(2), pthread_condattr_[gs]etclock(3)
On Jul 21 21:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 21 13:59, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:35 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Jul 21 11:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > No, you're not at all off-base. Personally I'd prefer to use the native
> > > > NT timer functions, but that's not important.
> >
> > No problem, that's something I keep forgetting about.
> >
> > > > What I'm missing is a way to specify relative vs. absolute timeouts in
> > > > your above sketch. I guess we need a flag argument as well.
> >
> > Working on this last night, I decided to make the timeout a LONGLONG of
> > 100ns units instead, positive for absolute and negative for relative.
>
> Good idea. The value can be immediately used in NtSetTimer and it
> can be used for testing.
Erm... maybe PLARGE_INTEGER would be the right type for this?
Corinna
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