From f83ed8946373f069356a1b50c19506821988bde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Heien <eric@heien.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 23:30:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed timer to allow fractional second times.

svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=142
---
 api/api.C | 8 ++++----
 api/api.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/api.C b/api/api.C
index 17ba53fcaf..674096adc1 100644
--- a/api/api.C
+++ b/api/api.C
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ void boinc_init(APP_IN& ai) {
         parse_init_file(f);
         unlink(BOINC_INIT_FILE);
     }
-    set_timer((int)ai.checkpoint_period);
+    set_timer(ai.checkpoint_period);
 }
 
 void boinc_poll(APP_IN& ai, APP_OUT& ao) {
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ void on_timer(int a) {
     _checkpoint = true;
 }
 
-int set_timer(int period) {
+int set_timer(double period) {
     int retval=0;
     struct sigaction sa;
     sa.sa_handler = on_timer;
@@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ int set_timer(int period) {
     sigaction(SIGVTALRM, &sa, NULL);
 #ifdef unix
     itimerval value;
-    value.it_value.tv_sec = period;
-    value.it_value.tv_usec = 0;
+    value.it_value.tv_sec = (int)period;
+    value.it_value.tv_usec = ((int)(period*1000000))%1000000;
     value.it_interval = value.it_value;
     retval = setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &value, NULL);
 #endif
diff --git a/api/api.h b/api/api.h
index 7fb5c82edb..d8d44be7c1 100644
--- a/api/api.h
+++ b/api/api.h
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ int boinc_resolve_link(char *file_name, char *resolved_name);
 extern bool _checkpoint;
 #define time_to_checkpoint() _checkpoint
 int checkpoint_completed();
-int set_timer(int period); //period is seconds spent in process
+int set_timer(double period); //period is seconds spent in process
 void on_timer(int not_used);
 double get_cpu_time(); //return cpu time for this process