Render timing.c robust in the face of strangeness. The strangenesses

[u/mdw/putty] / unix / unix.h

diff --git a/unix/unix.h b/unix/unix.h
index cfc48f3..54cf39f 100644 (file)
--- a/unix/unix.h
+++ b/unix/unix.h
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ unsigned long getticks(void);               /* based on gettimeofday(2) */
 #define GETTICKCOUNT getticks
 #define TICKSPERSEC    1000           /* we choose to use milliseconds */
 #define CURSORBLINK     450           /* no standard way to set this */
+/* getticks() works using gettimeofday(), so it's vulnerable to system clock
+ * changes causing chaos. Therefore, we provide a compensation mechanism. */
+#define TIMING_SYNC
+#define TIMING_SYNC_ANOW
+extern long tickcount_offset;
 
 #define WCHAR wchar_t
 #define BYTE unsigned char