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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
> 

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