From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-16 06:27:39


David Abrahams wrote:
>
> I'm not too worried. It really would be semantically identical and
> the timed lock code could contain a branch for the zero case if you
> want efficiency.
>
> It might still be too cute, but as long as we're talking about
> slimming the interface down we should discuss it.

This implicitly assumes relative timeouts.