[Spice-devel] RFC: Time functions in Spice

[Francois Gouget]

So the Spice server has a red_get_monotonic_time() function which, as is 
the tradition, has a very similar name to a regular Glib function, 
g_get_monotonic_time(), except that one returns the time in nanoseconds 
and the other in microseconds and nothing in the name warns the 
developer of that difference. Also nothing in that function justifies 
the red_ prefix and it is used quite widely.

There is also reds_get_mm_time() which returns the time in milliseconds. 
But unlike implied by its name it is also used by sound.c, dcc-send.c 
and display-channel.c so I'm not sure the reds_ prefix is really 
justified.

So I propose to rename these functions to spice_nanosecond_time() and 
spice_millisecond_time() and to define both in utils.h. Would that be 
ok?


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Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>