On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Peter Troeger wrote:

Hello,

another topic for today's phone conference:

Harald Böhme from HPI looked on the latest IDL spec. He asked why all "long long" values for time amounts (e.g. hardWallclockTimeLimit) are defined as signed parameters. Good question ...

He also proposed to define a common custom typedef for such values, instead of declaring them directly as 64-Bit numbers.

Well, Harald you're right. From POSIX one could use select(2) timeout parameter as model where 'struct timeval' is being used http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html with 'time_t' used as struct members. Use of 'struct timeval' as datatype for hardWallclockTimeLimit I'd dare to rule out, as there is probably no scheduler considering wall-clock time limits with nano-second precision. Regards, Andreas