[erlang-questions] Newbie question: wait until an absolute time
Matthias Lang
matthias@REDACTED
Fri Feb 1 15:10:03 CET 2008
Christian S writes:
> I recall reading somewhere that the Timeout in
>
> receive
> ...
> after Timeout ->
> ...
> end.
>
> Has a 32/64bit maximum because of C-runtime-reasons. Maybe this was so
> once, or maybe my memory is faulty.
You seem to be right. This is pretty ugly:
Eshell V5.5.4 (abort with ^G)
1> receive after 16#ffffFFFF -> timeout end.
timeout
2> receive after 16#ffffFFF -> timeout end.
(hangs "forever", as it should)
I didn't systematically check whether this also happens for compiled
code too.
timer:sleep/1 seems to do the right thing.
> Instead I would limit my sleep to perhaps day-intervals, and close
> down to smaller intervals when I get closer to the absolute
> time.
Realistically, that's a good idea, though day-intervals are rather
long if you ever want to load new code.
Matthias
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