Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Eric Norum <[email protected]> · Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:19:22 -0700

I think that epicsThreadSleep(x) should guarantee to return only after at least x seconds have elapsed.  
This is in line with the semantics of every other implementation of similar functions of which I'm aware.

On Jun 13, 2012, at 6:12 PM, Hill, Jeff wrote:

> 
> Hi Andrew, Ralph,
> 
> We will need to decide how to proceed with the timer delay 
> compensation issue. I am extremely busy so it will be easy 
> for this to fall through the cracks. 
> 
> It occurs to me that this issue could also be fixed by just not
> compensating the timer delay when the requested delay is less than one 
> quantum, but otherwise leaving the compensation code in place. I think 
> I mentioned that option before, but I suspect that Ralph is in favor only 
> of a solution that 100% removes the compensation. I mention this 
> option again only because it would be easier to justify as a backwards
> compatible bug fix, and therefore as an R3.14 patch. I believe that
> Andrew is not in favor of a change that removes the compensation 100% 
> from R3.14, and would postpone that change to R3.15.
> 
> What do you think? I am happy to implement whatever the community 
> consensus is.
> 
> Jeff
> 

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System