From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Cc: "Keller\, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>,
"j6t\@kdbg.org" <j6t@kdbg.org>,
"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"sortie\@maxsi.org" <sortie@maxsi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] autoconf: Check for timer_settime
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:08:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq38bzgp4j.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54106F34.90505@gmail.com> (Karsten Blees's message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:33:08 +0200")
Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com> writes:
> While the timer extension (timer_settime) has graduated to mandatory in
> the current POSIX spec, the monotonic clock extension is still optional
> today (i.e. not necessarily supported even on newer Unices). In contrast
> to this, the XSI extensions seem to be widely supported.
>
> IMO the 'obsolescent' marker in the current POSIX spec is no reason to
> spring into action (at least not yet). E.g. utimes (also in <sys/time.h>)
> has been marked LEGACY in the 2004 version and is no longer LEGACY today.
> Btw., we'd also have to find a replacement for gettimeofday and probably
> a lot of other stuff...
>
> Therefore I tend to agree with Hannes that we should stick with setitimer
> and emulate it on systems that don't have it (as we do on Windows).
Sounds sensible to me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-10 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-29 16:42 [PATCH 1/9] git-compat-util.h: Add missing semicolon after struct itimerval Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 2/9] autoconf: Check for " Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 3/9] autoconf: Check for setitimer Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 4/9] autoconf: Check for timer_t Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 18:20 ` Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 5/9] autoconf: Check for struct timespec Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 6/9] autoconf: Check for struct sigevent Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 7/9] autoconf: Check for struct itimerspec Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 8/9] autoconf: Check for timer_settime Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 17:26 ` Johannes Sixt
2014-08-29 17:40 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-09-10 15:33 ` Karsten Blees
2014-09-10 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-09-10 21:13 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-08-29 16:42 ` [PATCH 9/9] Use timer_settime for new platforms Jacob Keller
2014-08-29 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 18:09 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-08-29 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] git-compat-util.h: Add missing semicolon after struct itimerval Keller, Jacob E
2014-08-29 18:54 ` Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
2014-08-29 19:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-29 19:43 ` Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
2014-09-03 0:17 ` Keller, Jacob E
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-28 1:04 [PATCH 0/9] Use timer_settime for new platforms Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
2014-08-28 1:04 ` [PATCH 8/9] autoconf: Check for timer_settime Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
2014-08-29 15:23 ` Keller, Jacob E
2014-08-29 16:02 ` Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen
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