On 15/12/14 21:45, Bernd Paysan wrote: > Actually, the right spec is to define an absolute deadline instead > of a relative; we should do that with ns (ANS/Forth200x failed with > MS); maybe the name might need to change (ABSTIME-NS? DEADLINE-NS?). > pthreads AFAIK has one absolute deadline wait, > pthread_cond_timedwait(), but it's still useless (it can't be > combined with poll() to wait for other OS events; the only way to > use it as such is to have a thread which waits on the OS, and then > sends a condition to the thread which waits on abstime - that sounds > stupid ;-).
Can't you combine absolute deadlines and poll() by setting a timer to signal the thread? But I'm not at all convinced by the idea of multiplexing several streams with poll(), in any case. Andrew.
