Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Eric Sosman
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 03:58 pm



Greg Menke wrote:
> Should be handling rollover of your delta;
> 
>       if( t2 > t1 ) diff = t2 - t1; else diff = t1 - t2;
> [corrected in a follow-up posting]

    Rollover seems unlikely: 2^63 nanoseconds is slightly
less than three centuries.  Comparatively few computers
are able to run that long without a reboot ...

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Eric.Sosman@sun.com

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