Re: [Boost-users] [thread] bug: thread::sleep can't 'Idle'

Johan Nilsson wrote:

Out of curiosity, who actually prefers using clock times for thread::sleep()? IIRC the implementation still converts the UTC time into a relative time before entering sleep, so it's only misleading to have an absolute time as parameter to sleep.

You would need to ask the pthreads folks. ;-) This behaviour is inherited from there. Roland