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

From: Sascha Seewald (vudu_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-12 08:52:57

What about adding a function boost::sleep_until() that takes a point in 
time and change boost::sleep() to take a duration?

Sascha

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> 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