From: "David Engraf" <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de>
To: "'Bernd Petrovitsch'" <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:26:43 +0100
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> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> [.../9
> > > 3) wouldn't it be better to expose a wallclock time thing which
> > >    has a constant unit of time between all kernels?
> >
> > What is it?
> >
> >
> > > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() )
> > Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the
> user
> > changes the date, the counter would also change.
> 
> man 2 times
> And use the returned value.
> 
> 	Bernd
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times has only 10ms resolution, we need at least 1ms.

David


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