[timers] - triggering at the same time

Marc Lehmann schmorp at schmorp.de
Sun Dec 18 18:31:47 CET 2011


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:15:57PM -0800, Neeraj Rai <rneeraj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ok, the good news is that the cvs version, and probably 3.6 onward already
> call timers in strict ordering, and this is not a concidence.

ah, no, i was confused, timers that have the exact same expiry moment have
no inherent ordering indeed.

as such, the sorting method in a prepare watcher would need some
additional information, for example, a watcher could have a 32 or 64 bit
sequence number that the prepare watcher could sort for, and would need to
be added by the application.

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