Changeset 8706

Timestamp:

05/08/08 15:25:41 (2 months ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

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

Files:

• trunk/src/VBox/Runtime/r3/posix/semeventmulti-posix.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

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

@@ -368 +368 @@
-         * 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