On Friday 09 of December 2011 14:52:56 Sven Barth wrote: > Am 09.12.2011 13:30, schrieb Michael Schnell: > > On 12/09/2011 01:17 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > >> I would like to define it like this: "FPGetTickCount returns the > >> amount of ticks since an unspecified initial time. This initial time > >> is unknown, but is fixed for the entire duration of the application. > >> Ticks are time intervals and all of them have the same duration, but > >> their exact meaning in terms of real world units like milliseconds is > >> unspecified. FPGetTickCount is not affected by timezones and also not > >> by the user changing the system clock." So it matches > >> Windows.GetTickCount well but still is flexible enough to be > >> implemented in other platforms. > > > > What if the PC is polling a time server or similar ? IMHO FPGetTickCount > > should not be affected by such interference. This rules out using OS > > time API calls. > > The description of Felipe mathes Windows' GetTickCount (number of > milliseconds since system start) and Linux' MONOTONIC_RAW time (or > however it is called exactly). So I don't see why this should rule out > OS time API calls...
No, MONOTONIC_RAW is introduced in 2.6.26 afair, so it won't run on older kernels. zeljko
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