Re: What's cooking in git.git (Sep 2014, #01; Tue, 2)
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Sep 3, 2014, 19:18 UTC
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Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> But IMHO, this topic goes in a wrong direction. "Avoid deprecated > interfaces" is way overrated. It would be preferable (IMHO) to implement > setitimer() in compat/ for systems that don't have it.
I think I agree.
Adding compat/setitimer.c that implements git_setitimer() in terms of whatever is available on the platform and #define calls to setitimer() away to git_setitimer() would be a lot less intrusive change than the series posted.
Thanks.