Re: timeouts and suspend
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org> wrote:
My understanding is that a lot of people hanging out around POSIX
interpret "wall clock" as "while the computer is running". But that
may just been the high-precision clock folks.
There is some controversy over that point, but some do interpret it
that way. Hence CLOCK_BOOTTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM, and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM on Linux. See:
http://lwn.net/Articles/428176/
http://lwn.net/Articles/429925/
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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