Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()

[Derek R. Price]

Brad Chisholm wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:58:46PM -0500, Derek R. Price wrote:
> >
> > Well, it didn't seem very hard to do, so I had configure search for
> > nanosleep, usleep, and select in that order, then use them in the same
> > order of preference, falling back on sleep as a last resort.  It speeds up
> > 'make check' noticeably.
> >
> > Checked in.
>
> Just curious, but will a 20 ms wait be sufficient to prevent timestamp races?
> It appears the times saved in the Entries file have a granularity of 1 sec.

It's checking every 20ms whether the clock has flipped to the next second yet.
Hmm...  maybe later I'll make it wait more exactly when gettimeofday is
available...

Derek

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