On Sat, 20 May 2000, Benjamin Draper wrote:
> Thank you Chris!
>
> You're spot on with null_time being the problem. I'm not sure how,
>whether it's through select, or an overrun, it doesn't stay at 0 for
>very long. I took your advice and now have:
>
>> do {
> null_time.tv_sec = 0;
> null_time.tv_usec = 0;
>> circle_sleep(&timeout);
>> gettimeofday(&now, (struct timezone *) 0);
>> timediff(&timeout, &last_time, &now);
>> } while (timeout.tv_usec || timeout.tv_sec);
>>
>
> My tests were done using stock Circle30bpl16, so the only changes were
>the debug output, so perhaps your little addition should make it into
>bpl18? George?
Print 'null_time' before and after the select() calls. If those aren't
changing it, put log() around all the other uses of it too.
--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org
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