[collectd] [PATCH] Bugfix: correctly handle spurious wakeups in pthread_cond_timedwait

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi,

attached to this email you find a patch against git revision
ced2f3438fb1c333cd582a7d944d524b56ba0ef3, fixing a problem on machines with
more than one CPU (I did not test if single-machine computers are also
affected, though) running NetBSD (other systems might be affected, too).

The problem was that pthread_cond_timedwait was used to sleep for a specific
amount of time. However, spurious wakeups may happen and thus
pthread_cond_timedwait may return without the timeout having actually passed.
Therefore, I implemented a function which checks if the timeout has already
happened and calls pthread_cond_timedwait again if it has not.

This behaviour of pthread_cond_timedwait is documented in its manpage (the
linux manpage of pthread_cond_timedwait is much more helpful than the one
delivered with NetBSD in this case).

So, please merge this commit for the next release.

Best regards,
Michael
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