From: Tim Wilkinson (tim@transvirtual.com)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 18:39:18 EST
I think so - can you set something in the alarm handler to flag the timeout
perhaps?
Tim
Godmar Back wrote:
> Note, though, that if Linux gives you spurious wakeups in this way,
> we can't implement timeouts at all with the simple check-wait-check-timeout
> scheme. Instead, we must record the timeout as an absolute value, and
> check everytime we return from read whether time has advanced far
> enough that it's time to time out.
>
> Maybe that's the more robust way of doing it anyway?
> Should I try that?
>
> - Godmar
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