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

[u/mdw/putty] / unix / uxmisc.c

diff --git a/unix/uxmisc.c b/unix/uxmisc.c
index 28ae83a..c613a20 100644 (file)
--- a/unix/uxmisc.c
+++ b/unix/uxmisc.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -10,6 +11,8 @@
 
 #include "putty.h"
 
+long tickcount_offset = 0;
+
 unsigned long getticks(void)
 {
     struct timeval tv;
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ unsigned long getticks(void)
      * because we need a decent number of them to fit into a 32-bit
      * word so it can be used for keepalives.
      */
-    return tv.tv_sec * 1000 + tv.tv_usec / 1000;
+    return tv.tv_sec * 1000 + tv.tv_usec / 1000 + tickcount_offset;
 }
 
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