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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: frankeh@watson.ibm.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, matthew@hairy.beasts.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: futex and timeouts
Date: 13 Mar 2002 10:54:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1016045694.16743.1046.camel@myware.mynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020313182552.945523FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020313182552.945523FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com>

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On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:26, Hubertus Franke wrote:

> Ulrich, it seems to me that absolute timeouts are the easiest to do.

Does it work with settimeofday()?


> Question is whether the granularity of jiffies (10ms) is sufficiently small 
> for timeouts.....

Hopefully there will be support for high-resolution clocks and timers
sometime soon.  I don't know how to prepare new interfaces for this.  I
guess there will be a whole bunch of interface changes/additions so you 
could ignore the problem for now.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-13 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-13 18:26 futex and timeouts Hubertus Franke
2002-03-13 18:54 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2002-03-14  4:15 ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-14 15:19   ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15  5:39     ` [PATCH] " Rusty Russell
2002-03-15  6:08       ` Joel Becker
2002-03-15  6:56         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-15  8:49         ` Rusty Russell
2002-03-15 15:16         ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 16:04           ` Joel Becker
2002-03-15 18:59             ` Hubertus Franke
2002-03-15 19:28               ` Joel Becker
2002-03-16  1:12                 ` [Lse-tech] " george anzinger
2002-03-18 21:35                   ` Hubertus Franke

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