Subject: Re: Impact of monotonic time on ares_timeout() API

Re: Impact of monotonic time on ares_timeout() API

From: Christopher Palow <cpalow_at_facebook.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:10:12 -0700

Thanks!
Chris

On 6/12/08 4:01 AM, "Yang Tse" <yangsita_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/6/12, Christopher Palow wrote:
>
>> > So I'm reading the man page for ares_timeout and unlike curl_timeout it
>> > fills in a struct timeval with the next timeout. Which time is that?
>> > Monotonic or time since epoch? I'm guessing since epoch but I'd just like
>> > to be sure.
>
> None of them. It does not return an absolute "time".
>
> It accepts and returns "time differences" or "time offsets" or "amount of
> time".
>
>
> --
> -=[Yang]=-
>
Received on 2008-06-12