Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/3] Add internal APIs for dealing with time

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; The logging APIs need to be able to generate formatted timestamps using only async signal safe functions. This rules out using gmtime/localtime/malloc/gettimeday(!) and much more. Introduce a new internal API which is async signal safe. virTimeMillisNowRaw replacement for gettimeofday. Uses clock_gettime where available, otherwise falls back to the unsafe gettimeofday virTimeFieldsNowRaw replacements for gmtime(), convert a timestamp virTimeFieldsThenRaw into a broken out set of fields. No localtime() replacement is provided, because converting to local time is not practical with only async signal safe APIs. virTimeStringNowRaw replacements for strftime() which print a timestamp virTimeStringThenRaw into a string, using a pre-determined format, with a fixed size buffer (VIR_TIME_STRING_BUFLEN) For each of these there is also a version without the Raw postfix which raises a full libvirt error. These versions are not async signal safe