doesn't fit my criteria since it changes, bah I'll just use gettimeofday since it's a portable API and hope the computers I run it on don't change their blocks by too much... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrei Cojocaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 13:43 Subject: Re: Counting the clock cycles
> In message <00d501c22dc4$57d08b00$0200a8c0@twothousand>, "Andrei > Cojocaru" writ > es: > > I was asking around in #freebsdhelp on EFNet what the equivalent of > > GetTickCount() in the Win32 API is in FreeBSD. > > > > I need a way to properly determine passage of time that is not affected if I > > change the system clock for example. The only way I'm aware that you can do > > that is by counting the number of clock cycles since system startup. What > > function does that in FreeBSD? I'd also like a Linux way if possible. (that > > is a way that will work across all UNIX clones). Thanks and please include > > my email in the reply directly since I'm not signed up to this mailing list. > > Thanks once again. > > How about time(3)? > > > -- > Cheers, Phone: 250-387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: 250-387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Open Systems Group, CITS > Ministry of Management Services > Province of BC > FreeBSD UNIX: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
