[Click] Strange timer behavior

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Mar 4 10:43:43 EST 2008


Roberto,

I don't know exactly what the "problem" is here, which behavior do you not like?

The meaning of "schedule_after" is "schedule at X past the current time."  The 
meaning of "scheudle_at" is "schedule at the moment the system clock says X." 
  These methods are behaving correctly.

Eddie


Roberto Riggio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the problem is the following: if I use the schedule_at function
> in order to reschedule a timer I get the timer scheduled several
> times if i move the system clock forward.
> 
> On the other hand if I use the schedule_after function this
> does not occur and the timer is scheduled only one even if I move
> the clock several years in the future.
> 
> The problem is annoying because I'm using click over an embedded 
> platform that forget the system date at each reboot (the default date
> is Jan 2000).
> 


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