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From: Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "mtk.manpages@gmail.com Adhemerval Zanella" 
	<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
	"libc-alpha@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with the new pthread clock implementations
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:10:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201121201032.GA5620@mcrowe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dqeo5f5.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>

Hi Thomas,

On Saturday 21 November 2020 at 20:50:38 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21 2020 at 07:59, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > I've been taking a closer look at the the new pthread*clock*() APIs:
> > pthread_clockjoin_np()
> > pthread_cond_clockwait()
> > pthread_mutex_clocklock()
> > pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock()
> > pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock()
> > sem_clockwait()
> 
> Is there any at least rudimentary specification of these functions and
> what they are supposed to do?

The short answer is that they are like their "timed" equivalents, but they
also accept a clockid. The longer answer is at
https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1216 and if you have access to
it
https://www.opengroup.org/austin/restricted/newapis-p1/Additional_APIs_for_Issue_8-part1-changedpages.pdf

HTH.

Mike.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-21 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-21  6:59 Problems with the new pthread clock implementations Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-21 17:54 ` Mike Crowe
2020-11-21 21:41   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-23 14:38     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-11-23 16:12       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-11-21 19:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-21 20:10   ` Mike Crowe [this message]

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