<div dir="ltr">Sorry, I haven't done it reliable and as recommended by best practices :-)<br><br>fixed:<br><br>sleep(Time) -><br>
case whereis(timer_server) of<br>
undefined -> receive after Time -> ok end;<br>
_ -><br> Ref = make_ref(),<br> {ok, _} = send_after(Time, Ref),<br> receive Ref -> ok end<br> end.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Hynek Vychodil <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vychodil.hynek@gmail.com">vychodil.hynek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">It should be much more simpler to do it without modify timer_server:<div class="Ih2E3d">
<br><br>sleep(Time) -><br>
case whereis(timer_server) of<br>
undefined -> receive after Time -> ok end;<br></div>
_ -><br> Ref = make_ref(),<br> send_after(Time, Ref),<br> receive Ref -> ok end<br> end.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Per Hedeland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:per@hedeland.org" target="_blank">per@hedeland.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>Alpár Jüttner <<a href="mailto:alpar@cs.elte.hu" target="_blank">alpar@cs.elte.hu</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>As I recall, someone noted on that thread that timer:sleep() works well<br>
>for arbitrarily large numbers.<br>
<br>
</div>I thought that might have been me:-( - but I see now that I just said<br>
"the timer module" and gave an example using timer:send_after/2, so I<br>
was almost right...<br>
<div><br>
>Now I looked at the source and found that this is _not_ true. Strangely<br>
>enough, all the functions of the timer modules seem to work correctly<br>
>with large numbers _except_ timer:sleep() which has a definition as<br>
>simple as this:<br>
><br>
>sleep(T) -><br>
> receive<br>
> after T -> ok<br>
> end.<br>
<br>
</div>Ouch. But no-one will ever need to sleep for 50 days or more, right?:-)<br>
<div><br>
>It might be worth fixing.<br>
<br>
</div>And I guess I half-owe the fix - the problem is (as I discovered...)<br>
that there may be (is) code, um, "out there", that relies on being able<br>
to use timer:sleep/1 without having the timer_server running *or*<br>
getting "auto-started". Below is what I believe to be a backwards-<br>
compatible fix (against R12B-3), but it's pretty ugly - would probably<br>
be better to e.g. define a new function long_sleep/1 or somesuch for<br>
the "unlimited" case.<br>
<br>
--Per Hedeland<br>
<br>
--- lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl.orig 2007-11-26 19:55:44.000000000 +0100<br>
+++ lib/stdlib/src/timer.erl 2008-08-21 23:00:45.000000000 +0200<br>
@@ -75,9 +75,14 @@<br>
cancel(BRef) -><br>
req(cancel, BRef).<br>
<br>
-sleep(T) -><br>
- receive<br>
- after T -> ok<br>
+sleep(Time) -><br>
+ case whereis(timer_server) of<br>
+ undefined -><br>
+ receive<br>
+ after Time -> ok<br>
+ end;<br>
+ _ -><br>
+ req(sleep, Time)<br>
end.<br>
<br>
%%<br>
@@ -176,6 +181,13 @@<br>
{reply, {error, badarg}, [], next_timeout()}<br>
end;<br>
<br>
+handle_call({sleep, Time, Started}, From, Ts) -><br>
+ Req = {apply_after, {Time, {gen_server, reply, [From, ok]}}, Started},<br>
+ case handle_call(Req, From, Ts) of<br>
+ {reply, {ok, _}, _, Timeout} -> {noreply, [], Timeout};<br>
+ Reply -> Reply<br>
+ end;<br>
+<br>
handle_call({cancel, BRef = {_Time, Ref}, _}, _From, Ts)<br>
when is_reference(Ref) -><br>
delete_ref(BRef),<br>
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