Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Greg Menke
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 03:37 pm

capnwhit@yahoo.com writes:

> Greg Menke wrote:
> > Should be handling rollover of your delta;
> > Oops, sorry, should be;
> >     if( t2 > t1 ) diff = t2 - t1; else diff = (((hrtime_t)-1) - t1) + t2;
> >
> Hello Greg, Indeed it should! I will fix the hacked little test program
> I posted and re-run it (also with a histogram style output). Thanks for
> pointing that out... I am a firm believer in code-reviews!

Actually my bad, later on I read the bottom of the gethrtime manpage
which says they already guarantee no rollover between values (presumably
those sampled closely enough).  So no if/else clause is needed.

Gregm

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