[Libevent-users] EV_PERSIST behavior

[Phil Oleson]

Niels Provos wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Phil Oleson <oz at nixil.net> wrote:
>> So..  To fix your implementation you will need to do something like I 
>> did.
>> I reimplemented libevents' gettime() function (because it's not exposed
>> via event.h) and use it instead of calling time(NULL);
> 
> I don't really understand why you are saying that.  Timeouts are
> incremental and not in absolute time.  So, you don't really need to
> understand anything about the underlying implementation.
> 
> Niels.


Blah.. okay, my bad.  I saw the call to time(NULL) and made a assumption
that I didn't verify.  There was no timersub() or such use from that call.
I was juggling way too many things at the time and I should have refrained
from responding until I had time to process the question better.

	-Phil.