wine users - Nov 2001 - timeGetTime madness

Hi,

One software i run under wine uses the timeGetTime() function to do stuff every
five minutes.
Sometimes, that function seems to start going really faster, which defeat the
purpose of the software.

I currently use wine-2001.08.24 with FreeBSD 4.4, but it happened before with
older wine versions.

I made that software print out what happens :

At 14-11-2001 19:32 timeGetTime() just returned 7453186
At 14-11-2001 19:37 timeGetTime() just returned 7753190
At 14-11-2001 19:42 timeGetTime() just returned 8053195
At 14-11-2001 19:47 timeGetTime() just returned 8353210
(Before that, normal behaviour, one each 5 minutes, and then...)
At 14-11-2001 19:49 timeGetTime() just returned 8655880
At 14-11-2001 19:49 timeGetTime() just returned 9755582
At 14-11-2001 19:49 timeGetTime() just returned 10056085
At 14-11-2001 19:49 timeGetTime() just returned 10356061
and so on, about 500 times a minute (between 467 and 472 times a minute, to be
exact).

As you can see timeGetTime() seems to begin counting about 2500 times faster.

The "At 14-11-2001 19:xx" messages are made out of a GetSystemTime()
call, which seems to work fine.

If i cannot help, i will use another system call for my software, but i am
really curious about what can happen here.
I browsed Wine sources and found that timeGetTime and GetSystemTime both seems
to depend on a gettimeofday call.

Anybody can help me understand or fix it ?

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:08:36 GMT, <device@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

<snip>
>If i cannot help, i will use another system call for my software, but i am
really curious about what can happen here.
>I browsed Wine sources and found that timeGetTime and GetSystemTime both
seems to depend on a gettimeofday call.
>
use recent Wine to do problem report (current Cvs is best)

run with -debugmsg +mmtimer if the problem still exists
in current cvs.

Gerard