On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:15:54PM -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> The main reason why we are asking for this is that timeouts in POSIX
> calls are always specified in an absolute form. Because most system
> calls take it in a relative form, glibc has to call the kernel twice
Also, it is quite evil for a library to internally convert a user-specified
end time into relative time .. this causes end-time drift.
Joe
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