Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:54:31 -0500 From: Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com> To: Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 'ticks' in kernel. Message-ID: <3E653CB7.8080306@digitaldaemon.com> In-Reply-To: <20030304210747.GA29907@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3E64301E.5050901@digitaldaemon.com> <20030304.080123.34121962.imp@bsdimp.com> <3E64E941.3030205@digitaldaemon.com> <20030304.104403.34570707.imp@bsdimp.com> <3E64F7B2.9040008@digitaldaemon.com> <20030304210747.GA29907@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie>
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David Malone wrote: >On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:00:02PM -0500, Jan Knepper wrote: > > >>How would they return me the 'value' of 'ticks'? >> >>The problem is... I have a value's somewhere that has been assigned from >>'ticks', like: >>ptr -> value = ticks; >> >> > >Maybe it would help to explain what you are doing at a higher level? >It seems odd that you need to do anything like this at all... > > > Well, what I started doing is patching 'netstat' with the idea that I can display: - Time a TCP connection was setup. - Age of a TCP connection. the 'tcpcb' seems to have a member 't_starttime' which could be used for this. However, t_starttime is being initialized from 'ticks'. So to get an result that would make sense to a user I would have to do something like: const time_t boottime; time_t tcptime; tcptime = boottime + ( ticks - tcpcb -> t_starttime ) / FACTOR; The missing part... 'ticks'... Thanks! Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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