From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: David Engraf <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de>
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, 06 Dec 2005 13:13:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133871202.3664.34.camel@tara.firmix.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c5fa57$797051b0$0a016696@EW10>
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
[.../9
> > 3) wouldn't it be better to expose a wallclock time thing which
> > has a constant unit of time between all kernels?
>
> What is it?
>
>
> > (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.
man 2 times
And use the returned value.
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 10:36 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 [this message]
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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