On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:48:10 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> The thing is, we cannot change existing select semantics, and the
> question is whether what most soft-realtime wants is actually select, or
> whether people really want a "waittimeofday()".
NOT waittimeofday. You need a *new* measure which can't be set forwards
or back if you want this to be sane. pthreads has absolute timeouts (eg.
pthread_cond_timedwait), but they suck IRL for this reason.
Of course, doesn't need any correlation with absolute time, it could be a
"microseconds since boot" kind of thing.
Rusty.
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