From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 3 9:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EF637B479 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:09:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eA3H9kY00922; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:09:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: granularity of gettimeofday() In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:59:23 EST." Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 18:09:46 +0100 Message-ID: <920.973271386@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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