Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] git-p4: retry kill/cleanup operations in tests with timeout

From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
Date: Nov 17, 2015, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <CAE5ih78ma-71xVgA52LDiWNyPq+tCmXb3GgocO=dF81=yZXuWw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT2aBrL6Qh3W3d-ODjj7S0GORkTZMyQ6PBfHCLVqeKBvQ@mail.gmail.com>

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>> 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".
>
> The question about "date +%s" portability arose with a suggestion to
> employ it in git-filter-branch[1]. Apparently, the concern about
> Solaris was raised in response to a Stack Overflow question[2] which
> claimed that +%s was not supported by that OS. Unfortunately, however,
> [2] did not indicate to which (older?) versions of Solaris that
> shortcoming applied. If Solaris 10 does support +%s, and the Perforce
> product is only available for Solaris 10, then perhaps concern about
> +%s a non-issue(?).
>
> [1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/FEATURE-REQUEST-Filter-branch-extend-progress-with-a-simple-estimated-time-remaning-td7638200.html#a7638504
> [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2445198/get-seconds-since-epoch-in-any-posix-compliant-shell

Rereading the man page more carefully, you're right, Solaris 10 doesn't do "%s". Using python to get the seconds should work though.