From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2007-03-02T08:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing the use of gettimeofday in the scheduler

On 3/1/07, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> It can have OS-specific implementation, but I want the core behavior
> being common on most (if not all) platforms.  Besides that, I have no
> idea to fix this "bug" on _any_ platform right now.  Any idea?

It looks like sufficiently recent POSIX standards DO have a solution
for this.  I'd like to do some more research on this, but right now I
don't have time.  For anyone who wants to take a look at it, here's a
starting point:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/time.h.html

Pay particular attention to CLOCK_MONOTONIC and the timer_*() functions.

Hopefully I'll be able to look at this in greater detail over the weekend.

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Avdi