Re: [boost] [asio] timer questions

From: Andrew Schweitzer (a.schweitzer.grps_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-28 14:06:52

Andrew Schweitzer wrote:
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> 
> A related question: how do you ask whether a timer is still running? I 
> think you could call expires_at() and compare to current time. It looks 
> like there might be two issues with this: 1) Will crash if the timer is 
> expired? (haven't tried just took a quick look at code). 2) Oddly enough 
> getting the current time can be quite expensive, for example on Wince (I 
> think because you have to get data from the kernel). It might be a lot 
> faster to just say "I'm expired" if impl_ is null.

I was mistaken, it won't crash. Re-looked at code and tried in debugger. 
  Ignore 1.