From 048e57d82bafab647cca3105df24407d4994d0d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: correctmost <134317971+correctmost@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:39:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use bools instead of time values for SysCommandWorker
 attributes

Only the truthiness of the time values was being evaluated. This
also reduces the usage of time.time(), which makes the codebase
more resilient against clock drift issues.
---
 archinstall/lib/command.py | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/command.py b/archinstall/lib/command.py
index a9d65cb0..b99854d2 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/command.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/command.py
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ class SysCommandWorker:
 		self._trace_log_pos = 0
 		self.poll_object = epoll()
 		self.child_fd: int | None = None
-		self.started: float | None = None
-		self.ended: float | None = None
+		self.started = False
+		self.ended = False
 		self.remove_vt100_escape_codes_from_lines: bool = remove_vt100_escape_codes_from_lines
 
 	def __contains__(self, key: bytes) -> bool:
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ class SysCommandWorker:
 	def is_alive(self) -> bool:
 		self.poll()
 
-		if self.started and self.ended is None:
+		if self.started and not self.ended:
 			return True
 
 		return False
@@ -173,11 +173,11 @@ class SysCommandWorker:
 					self.peak(output)
 					self._trace_log += output
 				except OSError:
-					self.ended = time.time()
+					self.ended = True
 					break
 
 			if self.ended or (not got_output and not _pid_exists(self.pid)):
-				self.ended = time.time()
+				self.ended = True
 				try:
 					wait_status = os.waitpid(self.pid, 0)[1]
 					self.exit_code = os.waitstatus_to_exitcode(wait_status)
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ class SysCommandWorker:
 			# Only parent process moves back to the original working directory
 			os.chdir(old_dir)
 
-		self.started = time.time()
+		self.started = True
 		self.poll_object.register(self.child_fd, EPOLLIN | EPOLLHUP)
 
 		return True