Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-compat-util: use gettimeofday for current time

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

On 3/20/23 10:01, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> I however wonder if we should follow our
>> usual pattern of implementing git_time() with the identical function
>> signature as what we replace (i.e. system's time()), and #undef/#define
>> the symbol we replace with git_time, though.  Wouldn't it make [1/2]
>> a lot smaller and future-proof?

Yes, something like that would work too. (Sorry, I didn't know about the 
usual pattern.)


> +# Define OVERRIDE_TIME to override time(2) and replace it with an
> +# implementation based on gettimeofday(2).  THis is necessary when
> +# glibc 2.31+ on Linux is used, where in the first 1 to 2.5 ms of
> +# every second, time(NULL) returns a value that is one less than the
> +# tv_sec part of higher-resolution timestamps used in the file system.

THis -> This

It might be simpler to use the gettimeofday workaround on all platforms, 
rather than having an OVERRIDE_TIME flag and complicating 
config.mak.uname. gettimeofday should be portable, as it's already used 
elsewhere in Git without configury.

If we're going with the more-complicated solution, config.mak.uname will 
need changes in its AIX and MS-Windows sections because the problem is 
known to occur there too. Although AIX configuration is simple, I'm not 
sure how to go about the MS-Windows part as there seem to be a lot of 
ifdefs there. Also, because the time problem does not occur with musl 
libc (used in Alpine Linux 3.17), on the Linux side the workaround could 
be employed only if glibc 2.31+ is in use.