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Re: ecos and gettimeofday()
On Sunday 16 October 2005 07:44 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:36:03AM -0500, Richard Pennington wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 October 2005 04:55 am, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I suggest you add gettimeofday() to the end of time.cxx.
> >
> > I agree with Andrew that gettimeofday belongs at the end of time.cxx. It
> > is amost identical to clock_gettime() (with ns converted to usec).
> >
> > Is there something about the definition of CLOCK_REALTIME that I don't
> > understand that makes clock_gettime() incompatable with gettimeofday()?
>
> What do you mean by incompatable? I don't understand the question.
>
> Andrew
All I meant was that CLOCK_REALTIME increments just like the (implicit)
gettimeofday() clock. I'm learning the posix interfaces and wasn't sure if I
missed some magical meaning.
My main point was that gettimeofday() is virtually identical to
clock_gettime() except for the units.
-Rich
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