Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:09:46 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: granularity of gettimeofday() Message-ID: <920.973271386@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:59:23 EST." <Pine.SOL.4.21.0011031156050.29568-100000@jade>
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In message <Pine.SOL.4.21.0011031156050.29568-100000@jade>, Zhiui Zhang writes: > >The manual says the granularity of gettimeofday() is hardware dependent. >The time may be updated continuously or in clock ticks. Can anyone >explain for me the two different ways of updating the time? What kind of >hardware can help? You probably need to tell me what you need first... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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