Re: FW: [RFC] A more general timeout specification

[Christopher Friesen]

Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

> > 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"?
>
>
> endtime.ts += INTERVAL
> [we all know opaque is relative too] 

Heh. Okay, then what are the rules about what I'm allowed to do with 
endtime?  Joe mentioned there was a bit in there somewhere to denote 
absolute time.

> Or better, use itimers :)

I as actually thinking in terms of implementing itimers on top of your 
new API.

Chris

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