The relative timeout in linuxthreads

[Ulrich Drepper]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> Since pthread waits in the absolute time, that pthread won't time out
> until 2020 :-).

And deservedly so.  If you rely on clocks you better make sure they
are running correctly.

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