Re: Repeated timeouts period

[Ben Johnson <ben blarg net>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:28:24PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
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> So timeouts that try to catch up are not an absolute necessity, but they are
> quite useful in some programs.

I think you already know it's very easy enough to make a "timeouts that
try to catch up".  what's more difficult is making one that saves the
api user any time or trouble.

you've already given a pretty good example of how to deal with this
problem properly.  something like: use the timeout to fetch the real
system time once every 999/1000's of a second.  imho, there's not enough
complexity added to make hiding it in an api worthwhile.

- Ben