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From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-18 06:57:09

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Georgi Yaralov wrote:
>> Can anybody shed a light on this?
>>
>> // 23 May 01 WEKEMPF Removed "duration" timed_waits, as they are
>> too
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>> // difficult to use with spurious wakeups?
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>>
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>> I need relative time waits and this comment made me wary.

Since condition waits should always be done in a while loop, it's too easy
to miss that the relative timeout needs to be recomputed on each iteration.
Absolute timeouts don't have this problem.

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