In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: >On 28-Nov-2005 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> I've looked a lot at this in the ISC eventlib (bind8) but there is >> no way to save one timestamp per iteration without getting creeping >> imprecision in the timer controlled events. > >Would it help if we had something like select/poll that took an >absolute time (a deadline) instead of a timeout -- as is done by >pthread_cond_timedwait?
There are indeed many ways this could be done, but it won't help much in practice when libisc is written to be portable over a wide range of operating systems. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
