Re: PATCH: SECONDS can be floating point

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> Perhaps the
> bug is that the value is being saved/restored relative to "now"?  (I
> haven't looked at the local-variable code enough to know for sure.)

Yes, that is what happens, so an alternative fix is to save and restore
what's in shtime rather than use the value reported by the parameter.
This requires yet more ugly parameter-specific code.  In particular, you
need to store a complete struct timeval.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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