[libvirt] [PATCH 07/11] build: drop the usleep gnulib module

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 3 15:39:32 UTC 2019


On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 05:34:50PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 02:53:14PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > The usleep function was missing on older mingw versions, but we can rely
> > on it existing everywhere these days.
> > 
> 
> Per https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/usleep.html#usleep
> usleep only works up to one second on mingw.
> 
> However from 'git grep usleep' it seems that the virsh usage is the only
> one possibly relevant to Windows.

Doh, I totally misread that note.

> Is there any benefit of using usleep for values that are multiples of
> 1000?

Just nice to have consistency.

I'll move this patch into my glib series, as I can do a straight
s/usleep/g_usleep/, as that calls to Sleep() on Win32 to avoid
the problem, albeit with only millisecond precision but that's
fine.

Regards,
Daniel
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