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// Name   : environment
// Author : Chris Koeritz
// Copyright (c) 1994-$now By Author.  This program is free software; you can
// redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
// License as published by the Free Software Foundation:
//     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
// or under the terms of the GNU Library license:
//     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
// at your preference.  Those licenses describe your legal rights to this
// software, and no other rights or warranties apply.
// Please send updates for this code to: fred@gruntose.com -- Thanks, fred.
 
#include "environment.h"
 
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
//#ifndef _MSC_VER
  #include <unistd.h>
  #include <sys/times.h>
//#endif
/*
#ifdef _MSC_VER
  #define _WINSOCKAPI_  // make windows.h happy about winsock.
  // winsock support...
//  #undef FD_SETSIZE
//  #define FD_SETSIZE 1000
    // if you don't set this, you can only select on a default of 64 sockets.
  #include <winsock2.h>
  #include <windows.h>
  #include <mmsystem.h>
#endif
*/
 
namespace basis {
 
astring environment::TMP()
{
  const static astring TMP_VARIABLE_NAME("TMP");
  astring to_return = get(TMP_VARIABLE_NAME);
  if (!to_return) {
    // they did not see fit to set this in the environment.  let's make something up.
#ifdef __WIN32__
    // windows default does not necessarily exist.
    to_return = "c:/tmp";
#else
    // most reasonable OSes have a /tmp directory.
    to_return = "/tmp";
#endif
    if (!!to_return) set("TMP", to_return);
  }
  return to_return;
}
 
astring environment::get(const astring &variable_name)
{
//#ifdef _MSC_VER
//  char *value = getenv(variable_name.upper().observe());
//    // dos & os/2 require upper case for the name, so we just do it that way.
//#else
  char *value = getenv(variable_name.observe());
    // reasonable OSes support mixed-case environment variables.
//#endif
  astring to_return;
  if (value)
    to_return = astring(value);
  return to_return;
}
 
bool environment::set(const astring &variable_name, const astring &value)
{
  int ret = 0;
//#ifdef _MSC_VER
//  astring assignment = variable_name + "=" + value;
//  ret = _putenv(assignment.s());
//#else
  ret = setenv(variable_name.s(), value.s(), true);
//#endif
  return !ret;
}
 
basis::un_int environment::system_uptime()
{
//#ifdef _MSC_VER
//  return timeGetTime();
//#else
  static clock_t __ctps = sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK);  // clock ticks per second.
  static const double __multiplier = 1000.0 / double(__ctps);
    // the multiplier gives us our full range for the tick counter.
 
  // read uptime info from the OS.
  tms uptime;
  basis::un_int real_ticks = times(&uptime);
 
  // now turn this into the number of milliseconds.
  double ticks_up = (double)real_ticks;
  ticks_up = ticks_up * __multiplier;  // convert to time here.
 
  // we use the previous version of this calculation, which expected a basis::u_int
  // to double conversion to provide a modulo operation rather than just leaving
  // the basis::un_int at its maximum value (2^32-1).  however, that expectation is not
  // guaranteed on some platforms (e.g., ARM processor with floating point
  // emulation) and thus it becomes a bug around 49 days and 17 hours into
  // OS uptime because the value gets stuck at 2^32-1 and never rolls over.
  return basis::un_int(ticks_up);
//#endif
}
 
} //namespace.