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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:56:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
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Subject: Re: linux missing support for _POSIX_THREAD_CPUTIME?
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On Wed, 27 May 2009, Chris Friesen wrote:

That's more a question for the glibc folks. CC'ed.

> Hi all,
> 
> POSIX defines optional support for clock ID values obtained by invoking
> pthread_getcpuclockid().  When passed to clock_gettime(), this allows
> the caller to request the CPU-time clock of an arbitrary thread within
> the same process as the caller.
> 
> It appears that linux doesn't support this functionality--is that
> correct?  Is there any plan to enable this?
> 
> Is there any current way to obtain the runtime of a particular thread
> without knowing its tid (since the thread_id to tid mapping is known
> only to glibc)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
>