Use monotonic clock to prevent timing issues

This patch replaces the gettimeofday()/timeval-system with
uses of clock_gettime() with a monolithic clock and timespec-structs.
gettimeofday() is not accurate and prone to jumps and POSIX.1-2008
marks it as obsolete. Read more here [0].

The patch should speak for itself and decreases the binary
size for me by almost 200K(!).

[0]: http://blog.habets.pp.se/2010/09/gettimeofday-should-never-be-used-to-measure-time

Signed-off-by: Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga@shike2.com>

diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index 26053b0..17142a4 100644 (file)
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ char *argv0;
 #define LIMIT(x, a, b)    (x) = (x) < (a) ? (a) : (x) > (b) ? (b) : (x)
 #define ATTRCMP(a, b) ((a).mode != (b).mode || (a).fg != (b).fg || (a).bg != (b).bg)
 #define IS_SET(flag) ((term.mode & (flag)) != 0)
-#define TIMEDIFF(t1, t2) ((t1.tv_sec-t2.tv_sec)*1000 + (t1.tv_usec-t2.tv_usec)/1000)
+#define TIMEDIFF(t1, t2) ((t1.tv_sec-t2.tv_sec)*1000 + (t1.tv_nsec-t2.tv_nsec)/10E6)
 #define CEIL(x) (((x) != (int) (x)) ? (x) + 1 : (x))
 #define MODBIT(x, set, bit) ((set) ? ((x) |= (bit)) : ((x) &= ~(bit)))
 
@@ -294,8 +294,8 @@ typedef struct {
        char *clip;
        Atom xtarget;
        bool alt;
-       struct timeval tclick1;
-       struct timeval tclick2;
+       struct timespec tclick1;
+       struct timespec tclick2;
 } Selection;
 
 typedef union {
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ mousereport(XEvent *e) {
 
 void
 bpress(XEvent *e) {
-       struct timeval now;
+       struct timespec now;
        Mousekey *mk;
 
        if(IS_SET(MODE_MOUSE) && !(e->xbutton.state & forceselmod)) {
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ bpress(XEvent *e) {
        }
 
        if(e->xbutton.button == Button1) {
-               gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
+               clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &now);
 
                /* Clear previous selection, logically and visually. */
                selclear(NULL);
@@ -3709,7 +3709,8 @@ run(void) {
        int w = xw.w, h = xw.h;
        fd_set rfd;
        int xfd = XConnectionNumber(xw.dpy), xev, blinkset = 0, dodraw = 0;
-       struct timeval drawtimeout, *tv = NULL, now, last, lastblink;
+       struct timespec drawtimeout, *tv = NULL, now, last, lastblink;
+       long deltatime;
 
        /* Waiting for window mapping */
        while(1) {
@@ -3725,17 +3726,15 @@ run(void) {
        ttynew();
        cresize(w, h);
 
-       gettimeofday(&last, NULL);
+       clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &last);
        lastblink = last;
 
        for(xev = actionfps;;) {
-               long deltatime;
-
                FD_ZERO(&rfd);
                FD_SET(cmdfd, &rfd);
                FD_SET(xfd, &rfd);
 
-               if(select(MAX(xfd, cmdfd)+1, &rfd, NULL, NULL, tv) < 0) {
+               if(pselect(MAX(xfd, cmdfd)+1, &rfd, NULL, NULL, tv, NULL) < 0) {
                        if(errno == EINTR)
                                continue;
                        die("select failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
@@ -3752,9 +3751,9 @@ run(void) {
                if(FD_ISSET(xfd, &rfd))
                        xev = actionfps;
 
-               gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
+               clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &now);
                drawtimeout.tv_sec = 0;
-               drawtimeout.tv_usec = (1000/xfps) * 1000;
+               drawtimeout.tv_nsec = (1000/xfps) * 10E6;
                tv = &drawtimeout;
 
                dodraw = 0;
@@ -3789,9 +3788,9 @@ run(void) {
                                if(blinkset) {
                                        if(TIMEDIFF(now, lastblink) \
                                                        > blinktimeout) {
-                                               drawtimeout.tv_usec = 1;
+                                               drawtimeout.tv_nsec = 1000;
                                        } else {
-                                               drawtimeout.tv_usec = (1000 * \
+                                               drawtimeout.tv_nsec = (10E6 * \
                                                        (blinktimeout - \
                                                        TIMEDIFF(now,
                                                                lastblink)));