Re: Function to make a struct timespec from a floating point number?

[Robin Tarsiger]

Po Lu wrote:
> I recall there being a function in the Emacs sources to construct a
> `struct timespec' from a floating point number denoting seconds.
>
> I would like to use it to allow setting `polling-period' to a period
> less than one second, so that C-g can be detected faster in the NS port.
>
> Does anyone remember the name of that function, if it does exist?  I
> don't want to reinvent the wheel.

I spy a ‘dtotimespec’ in lib/dtotimespec.c. Is that what you wanted?

> Thanks.

In case it's useful to you in the future, I obtained that by a fairly
simple search across the C files for the expected return type at bol.
I used ‘less’ at the command line, but ‘dired-do-find-regexp’ would
have offered something similar. There are not many functions nor global
variables with a ‘struct timespec’ type.

-RTT