Re: [PATCH 0/2] progress: replace setitimer() with alarm()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 23, 2025, 21:47 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Operating system folks may have worked hard to minimize the cost of
> system calls to gettimeofday() in order to help applications that do
> so, but I somehow feel even dirtier to hear proposal to do so to
> replace a signal that we set and forget, to be reminded once every
> second.

I actually think this is probably fine. It is not like we are spinning only to wait. Every iteration we are doing useful work, and modern gettimeofday() implementations would be fine with this use case.