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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-help] Timed waits with POSIX skin using CLOCK_REALTIME
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To: Steve Deiters <SteveDeiters@domain.hid>
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Steve Deiters wrote:
> This is probably more of a general POSIX programming question.  Some of
> the timed wait routines in POSIX (pthread_mutex_timedlock, etc) take an
> absolute timeout value in terms of CLOCK_REALTIME.  How then are these
> routines not subject to timing error when the CLOCK_REALTIME is changed,
> e.g. with clock_settime?

I am not sure I understand the question. We tried and implement what is
described for instance here:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/clock_settime.html

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					    Gilles.