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

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-12 09:42:18

Ian McCulloch wrote:
> ....  So a relative sleep is certainly
> implementable.

Of course, that is the easy part. ;-)
It is more challenging to provide a sleep that indeed
will wait for absolute time. That function, as you can see
from my other post has some advantages which are missing
from relative sleep.

And the library provided primitives should be the
most generic ones.

Roland