Re: [Boost-users] [thread] bug: thread::sleep can't 'Idle'

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-12 07:20:56

Johan Nilsson wrote:
> Out of curiosity, who actually prefers using clock times for 
> thread::sleep()? IIRC the implementation still converts the UTC time into a 
> relative time before entering sleep, so it's only misleading to have an 
> absolute time as parameter to sleep.

You would need to ask the pthreads folks. ;-)
This behaviour is inherited from there.

Roland