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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
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Subject: Re: gettime time travels after suspend
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 18:23:19 +0100
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> >I have a running process which prints out the result of gettimeofday()
> >at regular intervals. If I suspend and resume my machine then the
> >value returned by gettimeofday() is incorrect - it jumps several days
> >into the future. Doing the same with time() is fine.
> >
> >I don't want to point fingers, but I suspect the following 1.3.10
> >change:
> > - Use QueryPerformance* functions for gettimeofday calls. (cgf)
>
> Patches gratefully accepted.
There is a similar problem here with timeouts passed to
WaitForSingleObjectEx, and WaitForMultipleObjectsEx. I was thinking of
generating a patch that does a single retry when a Wait* times out. Is the
consensus that this would be useful or not?

Chris



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