On Friday 20 July 2018 at 11:53:38 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 10/07/18 11:09 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
> > As currently implemented, condition_variable always ultimately waits
> > against std::chrono::system_clock. This clock can be changed in arbitrary
> > ways by the user which may result in us waking up too early or too late
> > when measured against the caller-supplied clock.
> > 
> > We can't (yet) do much about waking up too late[1], but
> > if we wake up too early we must return cv_status::no_timeout to indicate a
> > spurious wakeup rather than incorrectly returning cv_status::timeout.
> 
> The patch looks good, thanks.
> 
> Can we come up with a test for this, using a user-defined clock that
> jumps back?

That's a good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks.

Mike.

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