From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:34:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] git-p4: retry kill/cleanup operations in tests with timeout
Message-ID: <564AF48C.9040406@diamand.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR8igO1bWNgma_yZqrcru_jnKchpRH+i2_AaNj8Atcb9g@mail.gmail.com>

>>
>> While implementing it I thought more about it. P4D is only
>> supported on platforms that support the date function. That means
>> these tests will only run on platforms that support the date
>> function. Consequently I wondered if this would justify the
>> slightly more complicated code. However, if you think this change
>> would help the patch to get accepted then I will add it.
>
> I don't feel strongly about it, and it's not my call anyhow. Opinions
> of Junio, Peff (as interim maintainer), and Luke weigh much more
> heavily than my own. Punting on dynamic detection of "date +%s" may be
> perfectly acceptable with the attitude that it can be implemented
> later if someone runs across a case where it's actually needed.

Which other platforms are we talking about here?

https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix

 From there, you can get Solaris10, HP-UX, AIX and various flavours of 
BSD. Solaris supports "date +%s".

HP-UX and AIX, I really don't know.

Windows? I assume 'date +%s' will work for people using mingw.

Is it possible to get the time in seconds by doing something like this:

time_in_seconds() {
	python -c 'import time; print time.time()'
}

Luke