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RE: gettime time travels after suspend
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:35:17 +1000
- Subject: RE: gettime time travels after suspend
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris@atomice.net]
> There is a similar problem here with timeouts passed to
> WaitForSingleObjectEx, and WaitForMultipleObjectsEx. I was
> thinking of generating a patch that does a single retry when
> a Wait* times out. Is the consensus that this would be useful or not?
I think it depends on *where* the Wait* function is called. In various
pthread calls for instance, we should not retry - because the timeouts
are passed in as absolute values, not as elapsed values.
Rob
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