Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:12:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Subject: Re: time(3) vs. gettimeofday(2) Message-ID: <199610160812.KAA17166@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610160707.AAA21402@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Oct 16, 96 00:07:45 am"
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As Don Yuniskis wrote: > As the subject line says, I'm stumped trying to fathom the > differences between these two functions. > Have I missed something in the documentation? Yes, you've missed the tv_utime field. :) time() is the historic version with only one-second granularity. On BSD, it's implemented using gettimeofday(). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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