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Re: [PATCH] poll: wait until timeout on pipes (win32)


From: Edward Thomson
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll: wait until timeout on pipes (win32)
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:24:53 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:18:19PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Are you using the latest gnulib?  A similar problem in 'socket' was
> fixed about 3 months ago (see commit aaaf546); since 'poll' calls
> 'select', perhaps that fix also solves your problems in 'poll'?

I'm afraid it does not; we use only the poll compatibility function,
and not select.  We use the select in ws2_32.dll.

> I believe you alluded to the fact that GetTickCount is not affected by
> system clock adjustments.  That is true, but it is not strictly
> monotonically increasing: it wraps around after 49.7 days.  From the
> MSDN documentation at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724408%28v=vs.85%29.aspx:

That's correct, but a wraparound during the sleep should be well handled
since they're all unsigned types.  Is your concern that we cannot detect
if we end up sleeping for 50 days and cannot detect that we wrapped twice?
(clock would have this same limitation, I think.)

Thanks-

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