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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/i3status.c b/i3status.c
index bc8f35f..a0beb3e 100644
--- a/i3status.c
+++ b/i3status.c
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ cfg_t *cfg, *cfg_general, *cfg_section;
void **cur_instance;
+pthread_cond_t i3status_sleep_cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER;
+pthread_mutex_t i3status_sleep_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
+
/*
* Set the exit_upon_signal flag, because one cannot do anything in a safe
* manner in a signal handler (e.g. fprintf, which we really want to do for
@@ -547,6 +550,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
char buffer[4096];
void **per_instance = calloc(cfg_size(cfg, "order"), sizeof(*per_instance));
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&i3status_sleep_mutex);
while (1) {
if (exit_upon_signal) {
@@ -682,13 +686,16 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
fflush(stdout);
/* To provide updates on every full second (as good as possible)
- * we don’t use sleep(interval) but we sleep until the next
- * second (with microsecond precision) plus (interval-1)
- * seconds. We also align to 60 seconds modulo interval such
+ * we don’t use sleep(interval) but we sleep until the next second.
+ * We also align to 60 seconds modulo interval such
* that we start with :00 on every new minute. */
- struct timeval current_timeval;
- gettimeofday(&current_timeval, NULL);
- struct timespec ts = {interval - 1 - (current_timeval.tv_sec % interval), (10e5 - current_timeval.tv_usec) * 1000};
- nanosleep(&ts, NULL);
+ struct timespec ts;
+ clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts);
+ ts.tv_sec += interval - (ts.tv_sec % interval);
+ ts.tv_nsec = 0;
+
+ /* Sleep to absolute time 'ts', unless the condition
+ * 'i3status_sleep_cond' is signaled from another thread */
+ pthread_cond_timedwait(&i3status_sleep_cond, &i3status_sleep_mutex, &ts);
}
}