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Re: The relative timeout in linuxthreads

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus dot Brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum dot de>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 06 Feb 2002 16:01:10 -0800
Subject: Re: The relative timeout in linuxthreads
References: <20020206152641.A31597@lucon.org><20020206234647.GE1587@212.23.136.22><20020206155636.A32087@lucon.org>
Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> Since pthread waits in the absolute time, that pthread won't time out
> until 2020 :-).

And deservedly so.  If you rely on clocks you better make sure they
are running correctly.

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