Re: [Linuxptp-users] Fw: “Resource temporarily unavailable” errors during flood ping test

[Keller, J. E <jac...@in...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Cochran [mailto:ric...@gm...]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:26 AM
> To: Miroslav Lichvar
> Cc: lin...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Linuxptp-users] Fw: “Resource temporarily unavailable”
> errors during flood ping test
> > >
> > > This is the wrong solution. The right way is to set the
> > > tx_timestamp_retries configuration variable to a higher number, like
> > > 200 or 2000 instead of the default of 2.
> >
> > Would it make sense to specify a timeout instead of number of retries
> > and use select()?
> 
> That doesn't work because you can't restrict the select to the error
> queue only.
> 

But select returns the time it waited, and I believe we can do something like:

while (nothing_in_errorqueue or timeleft) {

  timeleft -= select(timeleft)

}


> Thanks,
> Richard