Joe Korty wrote:
The returned timeout struct has a bit used to mark the value as absolute. Thus
the caller treats the returned timeout as a opaque cookie that can be
reapplied to the next (or more likely, the to-be restarted) timeout.
Okay, endtime is always absolute value of when it should have expired.
But I think I see a problem with the opaque cookie scheme and repeating
timeouts.
Suppose I want to wake my application at INTERVAL nanoseconds from now
on the MONOTONIC clock, then again every INTERVAL nanoseconds after that.
How do I do that with this API?
I can get the first sleep. Suppose I oversleep by X nanoseconds. I
wake, and get an opaque timeout back. How do I ask for the new wake
time to be "endtime + INTERVAL"?
Chris
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