Bug in sem_timedwait()
Peter Dufault
dufault at hda.com
Mon May 23 19:39:23 UTC 2005
There is a bug in the POSIX sem_timedwait() implementation. The
struct timespec() is supposed to be an absolute timeout but it is
implemented as a relative timeout. The same code that is in
condtimedwait() (or even better, extract that code to a single place)
needs to be put in there.
Also, sem_timedwait needs to obey the rule that the timeout need not
be valid if the semaphore can be locked immediately. I didn't check
that.
I'll open a bug report. I don't think bug reports are sent to the
list so I posted this as well.
Peter
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