From: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
To: ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>
Subject: Re: Monotonic timestamps
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:03:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FDBBC1.1030500@joow.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080409213602.GA2589@tango.0pointer.de>
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hey!
...
> I find it very strange that ALSA just switches to monotonic timestamps
> just like that, anyway. Programs written for wallclack timestamps will
> break if they run on a system where ALSA uses monotonic timestamps!
>
> There's a function missing that enables monotonic timestamps
> explicitly, or at least one that can be used to query if they are
> monotonic or not.
The clean solution would (IMHO) be to have ALSA provide a function to
obtain 'current time', thereby making the timestamp system
self-contained. Maybe it already does...
Greets,
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-10 7:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 21:36 Monotonic timestamps Lennart Poettering
2008-04-10 7:03 ` Pieter Palmers [this message]
2008-04-10 14:15 ` Lennart Poettering
2008-04-10 17:20 ` Pieter Palmers
2008-04-10 7:48 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-04-10 14:26 ` Lennart Poettering
2008-04-11 12:16 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2008-04-11 12:56 ` Lennart Poettering
2008-04-21 10:47 ` Jaroslav Kysela
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