add monotone macro

Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libmdsserver/macros.h b/src/libmdsserver/macros.h
index bb4e1c3..b464732 100644
--- a/src/libmdsserver/macros.h
+++ b/src/libmdsserver/macros.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <time.h>
 */
 
 
@@ -215,5 +216,16 @@
    (geteuid() == getuid() ? 0 : seteuid(getuid())))
 
 
+/**
+ * Wrapper for `clock_gettime` that gets some kind of
+ * monotonic time, the exact clock ID is not specified
+ * 
+ * @param   time_slot:struct timespec*  Pointer to the variable in which to store the time
+ * @return  :int                        Zero on sucess, -1 on error
+ */
+#define monotone(time_slot)  \
+  clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, time_slot)
+
+
 #endif
 
diff --git a/src/mds.c b/src/mds.c
index df8fb31..8b2423a 100644
--- a/src/mds.c
+++ b/src/mds.c
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ int spawn_and_respawn_server(int fd)
       if (pid)
 	{
 	  /* Get the current time. (Start of child process.) */
-	  time_error = (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &time_start) < 0);
+	  time_error = (monotone(&time_start) < 0);
 	  if (time_error)
 	    perror(*argv);
 	  
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ int spawn_and_respawn_server(int fd)
 	    break;
 	  
 	  /* Get the current time. (End of child process.) */
-	  time_error |= (clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &time_end) < 0);
+	  time_error |= (monotone(&time_end) < 0);
 	  
 	  /* Do not respawn if we could not read the time. */
 	  if (time_error)