Windows: Implement setitimer() and sigaction().

The timer is implemented using a thread that calls the signal handler
at regular intervals.

We also replace Windows's signal() function because we must intercept
that SIGALRM is set (which is used when a timer is canceled).

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

1 files changed, 110 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 57af486..3ffff75 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -125,12 +125,120 @@ struct passwd *getpwuid(int uid)
 	return &p;
 }
 
+static HANDLE timer_event;
+static HANDLE timer_thread;
+static int timer_interval;
+static int one_shot;
+static sig_handler_t timer_fn = SIG_DFL;
+
+/* The timer works like this:
+ * The thread, ticktack(), is a trivial routine that most of the time
+ * only waits to receive the signal to terminate. The main thread tells
+ * the thread to terminate by setting the timer_event to the signalled
+ * state.
+ * But ticktack() interrupts the wait state after the timer's interval
+ * length to call the signal handler.
+ */
+
+static __stdcall unsigned ticktack(void *dummy)
+{
+	while (WaitForSingleObject(timer_event, timer_interval) == WAIT_TIMEOUT) {
+		if (timer_fn == SIG_DFL)
+			die("Alarm");
+		if (timer_fn != SIG_IGN)
+			timer_fn(SIGALRM);
+		if (one_shot)
+			break;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int start_timer_thread(void)
+{
+	timer_event = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);
+	if (timer_event) {
+		timer_thread = (HANDLE) _beginthreadex(NULL, 0, ticktack, NULL, 0, NULL);
+		if (!timer_thread )
+			return errno = ENOMEM,
+				error("cannot start timer thread");
+	} else
+		return errno = ENOMEM,
+			error("cannot allocate resources for timer");
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void stop_timer_thread(void)
+{
+	if (timer_event)
+		SetEvent(timer_event);	/* tell thread to terminate */
+	if (timer_thread) {
+		int rc = WaitForSingleObject(timer_thread, 1000);
+		if (rc == WAIT_TIMEOUT)
+			error("timer thread did not terminate timely");
+		else if (rc != WAIT_OBJECT_0)
+			error("waiting for timer thread failed: %lu",
+			      GetLastError());
+		CloseHandle(timer_thread);
+	}
+	if (timer_event)
+		CloseHandle(timer_event);
+	timer_event = NULL;
+	timer_thread = NULL;
+}
+
+static inline int is_timeval_eq(const struct timeval *i1, const struct timeval *i2)
+{
+	return i1->tv_sec == i2->tv_sec && i1->tv_usec == i2->tv_usec;
+}
+
 int setitimer(int type, struct itimerval *in, struct itimerval *out)
 {
-	return -1;
+	static const struct timeval zero;
+	static int atexit_done;
+
+	if (out != NULL)
+		return errno = EINVAL,
+			error("setitimer param 3 != NULL not implemented");
+	if (!is_timeval_eq(&in->it_interval, &zero) &&
+	    !is_timeval_eq(&in->it_interval, &in->it_value))
+		return errno = EINVAL,
+			error("setitimer: it_interval must be zero or eq it_value");
+
+	if (timer_thread)
+		stop_timer_thread();
+
+	if (is_timeval_eq(&in->it_value, &zero) &&
+	    is_timeval_eq(&in->it_interval, &zero))
+		return 0;
+
+	timer_interval = in->it_value.tv_sec * 1000 + in->it_value.tv_usec / 1000;
+	one_shot = is_timeval_eq(&in->it_interval, &zero);
+	if (!atexit_done) {
+		atexit(stop_timer_thread);
+		atexit_done = 1;
+	}
+	return start_timer_thread();
 }
 
 int sigaction(int sig, struct sigaction *in, struct sigaction *out)
 {
-	return -1;
+	if (sig != SIGALRM)
+		return errno = EINVAL,
+			error("sigaction only implemented for SIGALRM");
+	if (out != NULL)
+		return errno = EINVAL,
+			error("sigaction: param 3 != NULL not implemented");
+
+	timer_fn = in->sa_handler;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+#undef signal
+sig_handler_t mingw_signal(int sig, sig_handler_t handler)
+{
+	if (sig != SIGALRM)
+		return signal(sig, handler);
+	sig_handler_t old = timer_fn;
+	timer_fn = handler;
+	return old;
 }