[PATCH] POSIX monotonic clock

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Aug 3 05:52:00 GMT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 20:37 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> But that changes the sense of the errno.  EINVAL would indicate an unsupported
> argument.  At least some of the cases fail because of an unimplemented NT
> function call, e.g., ENOSYS.  Regardless of what POSIX says, I think that ENOSYS
> is ok, in at least some cases, for Cygwin since I believe QueryPerformanceCounter
> doesn't work on NT3.5 and NT4.

Thanks for the review.  This patch uses ENOSYS for QueryPerformance*
failures and EINVAL for unsupported/illegal CLOCK_* arguments.  If this
is OK, then I'll proceed with the newlib patch, which needs to be
applied first.


Yaakov

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