* Don't use sysexits.h. Just exit 1 on error and 0 otherwise.
* Don't sacrifice precision by converting the output of clock_gettime() to a
double and then comparing the results. Instead, subtract the values of
the two clock_gettime() calls, then convert to double.
* Don't use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_PRECISE. It's an unportable synonym for
CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
* Use more appropriate names for some local variables.
* In the summary message, round elapsed time to the nearest microsecond.
Reported by: bde, jilles
MFC after: 3 days
X-MFC-With: 265472
gettimeofday returns the system clock, which may jump forward or back,
especially if NTP is in use. If the time jumps backwards, then dd will see
negative elapsed time, round it up to 1usec, and print an absurdly fast
transfer rate.
The solution is to use clock_gettime(2) with CLOCK_MONOTONIC_PRECISE as the
clock_id. That clock advances steadily, regardless of changes to the system
clock.
Reviewed by: delphij
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
borrowed where syntax status=noxfer means no transfer statistics
and status=none means no status information at all.
This feature is useful because the statistics information can
sometimes be annoying, and redirecting stderr to /dev/null would
mean error messages also gets silenced.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 2 weeks
This structure is not part of POSIX. According to POSIX, gettimeofday()
has the following prototype:
int gettimeofday(struct timeval *restrict tp, void *restrict tzp);
Also, POSIX states that gettimeofday() shall return 0 (as long as tzp is
not used). Remove dead error handling code. Also use NULL for a
nul-pointer instead of integer 0.
While there, change all pieces of code that only use tv_sec to use
time(3), as this provides less overhead.
o Old-style K&R declarations have been converted to new C89 style
o register has been removed
o prototype for main() has been removed (gcc3 makes it an error)
o int main(int argc, char *argv[]) is the preferred main definition.
o Attempt to not break style(9) conformance for declarations more than
they already are.
Approved by: arch@, new style(9)
signal. Fix it by adding an explicit call to summary() in terminate()
(it was previously called implicitly by exit() because summary() was
registered with atexit()). summary() is supposed to be signal-safe--
it handles SIGINFO almost exclusively--so this should be safe.
Submitted by: bde
specifies exiting with a zero status if the file was copied
successfully, and with a nonzero status if an error occurred. We
are too sloppy to tell if the file was copied successfully when we
get killed by a SIGINT, but it is unlikely to have been. Added a
comment about related sloppiness (calling exit() from a signal
handler).
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
and he's right ... I forgot about this floating point stuff you can
use in user-land :-)
Increase precision of duration to microseconds.
No heuristics to avoid overflow in calculation needed - just depend
on DBL_MAX being a bit larger than LONG_MAX.
Use double instead of `struct timeval' in dd.h so that everything
doesn't have to include <sys/time.h>.
Fixed style bugs in recent and old FreeBSD changes.
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: bde