# RE: [PATCH v2] Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking it

1 messages from 2012-09-04 to 2012-09-04. Participants: Joachim Schmitz.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31423

## Joachim Schmitz, 2012-09-04 10:30

Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking it
Message-ID: <002001cd8a88$58e43ab0$0aacb010$@schmitz-digital.de>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/002001cd8a88%2458e43ab0%240aacb010%24%40schmitz-digital.de

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Poor man's getitimer(), simply based on alarm().

Currently needed on HP NonStop ("#ifdef __TANDEM"),
which does provide "struct itimerval", but no setitimer().
Alarm times are rounded up to the next full second.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
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Revert/remove my previous 2 patches for this first (from 'pu').

 git-compat-util.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 18089f0..55b9421 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@
 #define probe_utf8_pathname_composition(a,b)
 #endif

+#ifdef NO_SETITIMER /* poor man's setitimer() */
+#define setitimer(w,v,o) alarm((v)->it_value.tv_sec+((v)->it_value.tv_usec>0))
+#endif
+
 #ifdef MKDIR_WO_TRAILING_SLASH
 #define mkdir(a,b) compat_mkdir_wo_trailing_slash((a),(b))
 extern int compat_mkdir_wo_trailing_slash(const char*, mode_t);
-- 
1.7.12

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