I agree entirely. MacOS is getting more POSIX by the year :). But in interest of making e17 a clean experience for other MacOS users now I am wondering what the best fix is. Can we add a patch for Darwin with an equivalent clock call? Or should I just patch EINA logging.
On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 18:45:12 -0700 Dave Ray <cl...@jonive.com> said: > > wtf? so 10 years after posix-2001 was standardized (and clock_gettime was > around before that) osx still hasnt caught up? wonderfully primitive OS you > have there :) seriously that clock_gettime is relatively important. things > happen to work for you by luck and not by design, as gustavo said - change > clock config/timezone and such.. and things will stuff up without a monotonic > clock. it's warning you of a serious deficiency in your OS that leads to other > bugs. > >> It's a known issue with Darwin, which MacOS is part of. They haven't had >> clock_gettime support for 6+ years. >> >> There are alternative time calls that work on Darwin. but the fallback in >> ecore seems to work fine. There are some good discussions on the net, I can >> post some ideas for monotonic clocks if interested. >> >> I can try adding the EINA flag to suppress the warnings, that sounds like the >> best option for now. >> >> But I wonder does anyone benefit from this printf warning spewing frequently. >> It seems to work fine using the fallback. >> >> >> On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:36:39 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri >>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said: >>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Dave Ray <cl...@jonive.com> wrote: >>>>> On my OS ecore runs fine, but spews a warning frequently. >>>>> >>>>> CRI<12490>:ecore ecore_time.c:170 _ecore_time_init() Platform does not >>>>> support clock_gettime. Fallback to unix time. >>>>> >>>>> Everything that uses ecore spews it. Fills up my logs. >>>>> >>>>> Is this printf necessary? >>>> >>>> It's not a printf(), but eina_log and you van disable it with >>>> EINA_LOG_LEVELS=ecore:-1 >>>> >>>> What platform is yours? The correct fix would be to add proper >>>> monotonic clock to it... this may result in skews and problems during >>>> timezone changes. >>> >>> not just timezone - every time the clock is changed - ie u set the time (ntp >>> adjusts clock skew, etc. etc) depending on timezone setup and so on. i would >>> agree with gustavo - your Os sounds pretty poor if it has no monotonic >>> clock. if it does and it simply has decided to not comform to posix (As >>> clock_gettime is posix.1-2001) then it's just wanting to be different for >>> the sake of being different. if it is a problem with our detection of the >>> call and it does exist, then please let us know what it requires to detect >>> it etc. (see configure.ac for ecore - we check libc and if not we check >>> librt) :) >>> >>> -- >>> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- >>> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Xperia(TM) PLAY >> It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming >> smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. >> And it wants your games. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
