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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Reg Clemens <reg@dwf.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487FF67B.2050801@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.cG/vRVVC+ZH1htzxsRnVF3NJVCc@ifi.uio.no>

Reg Clemens wrote:
> Im confused.
> (sorry I havent been following the linux-kernel mailing list on this)
> 
> Does 2.6.26 use nanosecond time
>     (1) internally?
>     (2) provide it to the user?
> 
> I see no way to turn it on/off in xconfig.
> Yet I do see STA_NANO defined in sys/timex.h which is a good start.
> 
> and IF it provides it to the user, what do I use to get nanosecond time.
> My search with man -k for timespec turns up
>       sys_clock_getres
> and sys_clock_gettime
> 
> or possibly clock_getres and clock_gettime, the man pages use both,
> but NONE of these entry points seem to exist in my system.
> 
> Puzzled.

clock_gettime should exist. Old glibc version?

       reply	other threads:[~2008-07-18  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.cG/vRVVC+ZH1htzxsRnVF3NJVCc@ifi.uio.no>
2008-07-18  1:48 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-07-18  0:19 Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user? Reg Clemens
2008-07-18  1:42 ` Måns Rullgård
2008-07-18  2:19   ` Reg Clemens
2008-08-01 14:11     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-07-18  3:46 ` Chris Friesen

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