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Subject: RE: gettime time travels after suspend
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:35:17 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris January [mailto:chris AT atomice DOT net] 

> 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?

I think it depends on *where* the Wait* function is called. In various
pthread calls for instance, we should not retry - because the timeouts
are passed in as absolute values, not as elapsed values.

Rob

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