semeventmulti-posix.cpp

Timestamp:

May 8, 2008 1:25:41 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

30644

Message:

r=bird: the timeout handling is busted since we're using absolute wall clock.

File:

trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/semeventmulti-posix.cpp

-              r8245
+              r8706
          * Get current time and calc end of wait time.
          */
+        /** @todo Something is braindead here. we're getting occational timeouts after no time has
+         * elapsed on linux 2.6.23. (ata code typically)
+         *
+         * The general problem here is that we're using the realtime clock, i.e. the wall clock
+         * that is subject to ntp updates and user alteration, so we will have to compenstate
+         * for this by using RTTimeMilliTS together with the clock_gettime()/gettimeofday() call.
+         * Joy, oh joy. */
         struct timespec     ts = {0,0};
 #ifdef RT_OS_DARWIN

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