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Viktor Szakats 9c421761bc src: use abstract internal time type, bump resolution to milliseconds
To honor the actual millisecond timeout set via
`libssh2_session_set_timeout()`, to open the possibility for the same in
other APIs, and to use monotonic time if available.

- add internal abstract time types and macros for handling point in time
  and time intervals, and use them throughout the codebase.
- bump internal abstract time resolution to milliseconds (from seconds).
  Use signed 64-bit integers.
- replace existing millisecond-resolution code in `libssh2_poll()` with
  the internal abstract time interface.
- bump 'now' function to retrieve millisecond-resolution monotonic time
  from the system, if available.

Also:
- append `_s` or `_ms` to public API arguments to tell the time unit.
- keepalive: minor tidy-ups.
- make `ssh2_now()` return at least 1 in the fallback,
  `time(NULL)`-based codepath to not confuse a zero value with unset
  time.
  Credits: Stefan Eissing
  Ref: 5649b21297
  Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21034
- this leaves existing `ssh2_gettimeofday()` (together with its
  Windows-specific local implementation) with a single caller,
  `ssh2_deb_low()`.

Refs:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/clock_gettime.html
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/clock_gettime.3.html
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604599/functions/gettimeofday.html
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/gettimeofday.2.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/profileapi/nf-profileapi-queryperformancefrequency
https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/api/profileapi/nf-profileapi-queryperformancecounter
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5404277/porting-clock-gettime-to-windows

Reported-and-patch-proposal-by: Trzik on github
Based-on-patch-proposals-by: Ryan Kelley
Fixes #1497
Ref: #1818
Closes #1893
Follow-up to 772abc7a85 #1919

Closes #2341
2026-07-19 02:56:04 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) The libssh2 project and its contributors.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Title: libssh2_poll
Section: 3
Source: libssh2
See-also:
- libssh2_poll_channel_read(3)
---
# NAME
libssh2_poll - poll for activity on a socket, channel or listener
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <libssh2.h>
int libssh2_poll(LIBSSH2_POLLFD *fds, unsigned int nfds, long timeout_ms);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
This function is deprecated. Do not use. We encourage users to instead use
the *poll(3)* or *select(3)* functions to check for socket activity or
when specific sockets are ready to get received from or send to.
Poll for activity on a socket, channel, listener, or any combination of these
three types. The calling semantics for this function generally match
*poll(2)* however the structure of fds is somewhat more complex in order
to accommodate the disparate datatypes, POLLFD constants have been namespaced
to avoid platform discrepancies, and revents has additional values defined.
# AVAILABILITY
Marked as deprecated since 1.2.0
# RETURN VALUE
Number of fds with interesting events.