Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)

Andi Kleen
2005-12-06T15:17:21Z

"David Engraf" <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de> writes:

> This patch adds a new systemcall on i386 architectures returning the jiffies
> value to the application.
> As a kernel developer you can use jiffies but from the user space there is
> no equivalent function which counts every millisecond like the Win32
> GetTickCount.

You want a timer that never go backwards, right?

Use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). It's the POSIX way to do this.

-Andi