[Libevent-users] Re: evtimer complains...

2006-12-11 Thread Phil Oleson
Ya.. I think some better documentation is in order.. I also am thinking that you might want to convert gettime() to evgettime() and export it for use with the library to keep those that might have a system that doesn't have CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which defaults to CLOCK_REALTIME or even defaults to

[Libevent-users] Re: evtimer complains...

2006-12-09 Thread Niels Provos
The libevent API has never supported absolute times for timeouts. If they worked before then that was only by accident and never by intention. The switch to clock monotonic was made to support clock resets. So, personally, I am very surprised that absolute times ever worked for you. Is this