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Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update()
From: |
Derek R. Price |
Subject: |
Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update() |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:39:50 -0500 |
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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- Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Brad Chisholm, 2001/02/12
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Larry Jones, 2001/02/13
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Laine Stump, 2001/02/14
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Larry Jones, 2001/02/14
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Laine Stump, 2001/02/14
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Larry Jones, 2001/02/14
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Derek R. Price, 2001/02/14
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Brad Chisholm, 2001/02/16
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Laine Stump, 2001/02/16
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(),
Derek R. Price <=
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Larry Jones, 2001/02/16
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Derek R. Price, 2001/02/16
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), Paul Sander, 2001/02/15
- Re: Timestamp race avoidance in do_update(), laine+info-cvs, 2001/02/16