* David Powell <da...@drp.id.au> [2010-06-11 16:09:55+1000] > This is a slightly different issue, but isn't there a potential problem with > threadDelay? I noticed that internally threadDelay uses gettimeofday() as > the absolute time source (on linux at least). Isn't there potential > problem with this since wall-clock time isn't guaranteed to be monotonic > increasing? On linux, I'd have thought the "right" thing to do would be to > use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) although that is probably not very > portable.
Good point -- I remember xmobar hanging after adjusting clock. Seems like this is the cause. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ "Don't let school get in the way of your education." - Mark Twain _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
