Re: [boost] [thread] Questions/concerns about recent thread libchanges

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-18 06:56:23

Johan Nilsson wrote:

> It's possible to handle spurious wakeups with relative times as well,
> perhaps just not perfectly (depending on underlying platform
> support). If 
> the only way to perform a timed wait on a condition variable is by an
> absolute time, I believe the most common usage will be something like
> this (pseudocode):
> 
> ---
> time now = microsec_clock::local_time();
> time timeout = now + milliseconds(250);
> if (!cv.timed_wait(lk, timeout, my_pred()))
> {
>    throw "Timed out!";
> }

You are missing a loop.