poll: honor the timeout on Win32 #176
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Ensure that when passing a pipe, the gnulib poll replacement will not return 0 before the timeout has passed. Not obeying the timeout (and merely returning 0) causes pathological behavior when preparing a packfile for a repository and taking a long time to do so. If poll were to return 0 immediately, this would cause keep-alives to get sent as quickly as possible until the packfile was created. Such deviance from the standard would cause megabytes (or more) of keep-alive packets to be sent. GetTickCount is used as it is efficient, stable and monotonically increasing. (Neither GetSystemTime nor QueryPerformanceCounter have all three of these properties.) Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson <ethomson@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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Ensure that when passing a pipe, the gnulib poll replacement will not
return 0 before the timeout has passed.
Not obeying the timeout (and merely returning 0) causes pathological
behavior when preparing a packfile for a repository and taking a
long time to do so. If poll were to return 0 immediately, this would
cause keep-alives to get sent as quickly as possible until the packfile
was created. Such deviance from the standard would cause megabytes (or
more) of keep-alive packets to be sent.
GetTickCount is used as it is efficient, stable and monotonically
increasing. (Neither GetSystemTime nor QueryPerformanceCounter have
all three of these properties.)
Signed-off-by: Edward Thomson ethomson@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin johannes.schindelin@gmx.de