Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:55:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:55:08 -0500 Received: from runyon.sfbay.redhat.com ([205.180.230.5]:46509 "HELO cygnus.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:55:02 -0500 Subject: Re: futex and timeouts From: Ulrich Drepper To: frankeh@watson.ibm.com Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, matthew@hairy.beasts.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20020313182552.945523FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20020313182552.945523FE06@smtp.linux.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-roAMe2pYcSRF2o04XVIv" X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 (1.0.2-0.7x) Date: 13 Mar 2002 10:54:54 -0800 Message-Id: <1016045694.16743.1046.camel@myware.mynet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-roAMe2pYcSRF2o04XVIv Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:26, Hubertus Franke wrote: > Ulrich, it seems to me that absolute timeouts are the easiest to do. Does it work with settimeofday()? > Question is whether the granularity of jiffies (10ms) is sufficiently sma= ll=20 > for timeouts..... Hopefully there will be support for high-resolution clocks and timers sometime soon. I don't know how to prepare new interfaces for this. I guess there will be a whole bunch of interface changes/additions so you=20 could ignore the problem for now. --=20 ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ --=-roAMe2pYcSRF2o04XVIv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA8j6B+2ijCOnn/RHQRAnZiAJ435BSJKpwrIXD0GFtGpHAKQM09EACeMcIN NDJQc5PsiwCUtDIwew33J1A= =92Hf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-roAMe2pYcSRF2o04XVIv-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/