From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David Engraf" <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de>
Cc: "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)
Date: 06 Dec 2005 12:47:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73u0dmqa84.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009201c5fa50$f3f58a10$0a016696@EW10>
"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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 15:17 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
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 [this message]
2005-12-06 15:25 ` AW: " David Engraf
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