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Subject: Re: futex and timeouts
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.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 sma=
ll=20
> 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=20
could ignore the problem for now.

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