Posted by Colin McKinnon on 02/05/06 23:40

David T. Ashley wrote:

> to never recur in the lifetime of the server. The method I'm using now is
> to concatentate:
>
> a)Integer time, in seconds,
>
> b)Micro time, in microseconds, and
>
> c)PID
>
> into one string, then to spin-lock or micro_sleep() until the micro_time
> changes.

There's not a *better* way, although your proposal is not very efficent (80+
bits a time / 18 decimal digits). (I would have used a counter with a
mutex)

C.

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