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

[Florian Forster]

Hi Michael,

On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 04:22:16PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> 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.

thanks for the patch :) I've applied it to the collectd-4.8 branch, so
the next patch releases will include this fix.

I've done a minor modification: Rather than using "bool" I've changed
the "timeout_reached" to return "_Bool" which is a basic data type in
C99.

Regards,
—octo
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