> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:51:00 +0200
> From: daniel_at_haxx.se
> To: curl-library_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: RE: Porting curlx_tvnow
>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Vladimir Grishchenko wrote:
>
> >> libcurl won't use the "wall time" for anything, so just taking a tick
> >> counter like we do on windows should work perfectly fine.
> >
> > What happens when such a counter wraps? While such a coincidence is unlikely
> > it seems that some timeouts may not work correctly. Is that a valid concern
> > for an application that may stay up for long periods of time?
>
> If that counter wraps, you need to make take that into account when you use
> that to provide the time for libcurl as libcurl will blindly assume that time
> always runs forward.
>
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>
> / daniel.haxx.se
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Understood, thanks.
                                               

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