Re: fooled by shifting date



On Dec 6, 7:16 am, "Roy Terry" <royte...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Broken "after" commands can be a big thorn.
Roy

Thanks Roy. Maybe I wasn't being paranoid after all :-)

[Kevin]
A possible solution would be to have a separate [at] command to wake
up according to the wall clock, and make [after] strictly dependent
on the interval timer.

Nice idea.
Perhaps available before 9.0 as loadable extension?

Seconded. I find it a bit frustrating that such a sanitization of a
core primitive be delayed with tons of bells and whistles like 9.0...

I would love to volunteer an earlier patch. But I need some technical
advice, on how to do it:
- a jiffies()-like call (which one on which OS ?)
- using setitimer() and the interruption of select() by the
SIGALRM, or the handler firing outside the select(). But what about
Windows ? Yet another worker thread ?

-Alex

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