Re: [PATCH 3/9] wrapper: add sleep_nanosec

From: Siddh Raman Pant <siddh.raman.pant@oracle.com>
Date: May 20, 2026, 07:07 UTC
Message-ID: <56552f593c7fed411af24413e4d3e77a34828451.camel@oracle.com>
In-Reply-To: <87qzn7q7qj.fsf@gitster.g>

On Wed, May 20 2026 at 05:20:44 +0530, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> The space above the signed-off-by line should be utilized to explain
> why we want this change.  For the purpose of this series, why do we
> want to sleep at nanosecond precision?

The current time returned by getnanotime() is in nanoseconds which is used for deadline, so to avoid re-casting in helper code path we try to stay in nanosecond world. The caller can store in ns once and reuse it everytime.

Thanks, Siddh

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