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From: "David Engraf" <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de>
To: "'Ingo Molnar'" <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "'Arjan van de Ven'" <arjan@infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:06:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000101c5fa5d$863f3900$0a016696@EW10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051206112900.GA29790@elte.hu>

> * David Engraf <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de> wrote:
> 
> > > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() )
> >
> > Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the
> > user changes the date, the counter would also change.
> 
> see 'man clock_gettime', and CLOCK_MONOTONIC:
> 
>        CLOCK_MONOTONIC
>               Clock that cannot be set and  represents  monotonic  time
> since
>               some unspecified starting point.
> 
> and it has microsecond resolution.
> 
> 	Ingo

You're right, clock_gettime with CLOCK_MONOTONIC seems to be date/time
independent. For a GetTickCount implementation it is absolutely enough.

Thanks
David Engraf


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-06 10:36 [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386) David Engraf
2005-12-06 10:44 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 11:23   ` David Engraf
2005-12-06 11:29     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-06 12:06       ` David Engraf [this message]
2005-12-06 11:35     ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 11:37     ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-12-06 12:13     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-12-06 12:26       ` David Engraf
2005-12-06 19:48         ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-06 18:00           ` Eric Dumazet
2005-12-06 18:01             ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-06 19:47 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-06 15:25   ` AW: " David Engraf

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