[Tinyos-devel] Bug in timer system

[Jan Hauer]

FYI: the timer.fired() bug has been reported before
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1572439&group_id=28656&atid=393934)
- and Michiel Konstapel claims that they have send a bug report to the
mailing list some time ago also - let's fix this now !!!
Jan

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Michiel Konstapel <m.konstapel at sownet.nl> wrote:
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> > I think we've found a bug in the timer system
>  > (tos/lib/timer/VirtualizeTimerC.nc).
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>  I think you have ;)
>  We've also run across it and have devised a different fix/workaround,
> adding a flag to newly started timers to prevent their erroneous firing.
> Afterwards, we found it's a known bug:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1572439&group_id=28656&atid=393934.
> Unfortunately, it's been known but unfixed since 2006...
>  Can someone evaluate/commit a fix? One's been suggested in the bug report,
> ours should be in the mailing list archives and Jan's is another candidate.
>  Michiel