Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:14:14 -0600 From: "Andrei Cojocaru" <spinlock_lists@empirequest.com> To: "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles Message-ID: <004801c22dce$859bfa60$0300a8c0@fivehundred> References: <200207171943.g6HJhf4o051526@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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doesn't fit my criteria since it changes, bah I'll just use gettimeofday = since it's a portable API and hope the computers I run it on don't = change their blocks by too much... ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" = <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: "Andrei Cojocaru" <spinlock_lists@empirequest.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 13:43 Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles=20 > In message <00d501c22dc4$57d08b00$0200a8c0@twothousand>, "Andrei=20 > Cojocaru" writ > es: > > I was asking around in #freebsdhelp on EFNet what the equivalent of > > GetTickCount() in the Win32 API is in FreeBSD. > >=20 > > I need a way to properly determine passage of time that is not = affected if I > > change the system clock for example. The only way I'm aware that you = can do > > that is by counting the number of clock cycles since system startup. = What > > function does that in FreeBSD? I'd also like a Linux way if = possible. (that > > is a way that will work across all UNIX clones). Thanks and please = include > > my email in the reply directly since I'm not signed up to this = mailing list. > > Thanks once again. >=20 > How about time(3)? >=20 >=20 > -- > Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, CITS > Ministry of Management Services > Province of BC =20 > FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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