I have isolated a problem in pthread_cond_timedwait when the condattr is used to set the clock type to CLOCK_MONOTONIC. In this case even though a target time point in the future is specified, the call returns ETIMEDOUT but a subsequent call to clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) shows the desired time point was not reached. $ gcc timed_wait_short.c -o timed_wait_short $ ./timed_wait_short.exe begin: 521036s 122315900n target: 521036s 172315900n end: 521036s 173293100n ok: true begin: 521036s 174872400n target: 521036s 224872400n end: 521036s 224378900n ok: false Jim@pulsar /cygdrive/c/users/jim/desktop $ ./timed_wait_short.exe begin: 521052s 95953200n target: 521052s 145953200n end: 521052s 145284000n ok: false Jim@pulsar /cygdrive/c/users/jim/desktop $ ./timed_wait_short.exe begin: 521056s 396277200n target: 521056s 446277200n end: 521056s 446664700n ok: true begin: 521056s 454535100n target: 521056s 504535100n end: 521056s 504567000n ok: true begin: 521056s 510360800n target: 521056s 560360800n end: 521056s 560555600n ok: true begin: 521056s 566604400n target: 521056s 616604400n end: 521056s 616622800n ok: true begin: 521056s 619277800n target: 521056s 669277800n end: 521056s 669646400n ok: true begin: 521056s 671907500n target: 521056s 721907500n end: 521056s 721578000n ok: false I have attached the source code. Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 2.11.2 DLL epoch: 19 DLL old termios: 5 DLL malloc env: 28 Cygwin conv: 181 API major: 0 API minor: 329 Shared data: 5 DLL identifier: cygwin1 Mount registry: 3 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin Installations name: Installations Cygdrive default prefix: Build date: Shared id: cygwin1S5