Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:48:43 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user?
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To: Reg Clemens <reg@dwf.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Reg Clemens wrote:
> Im confused.
> (sorry I havent been following the linux-kernel mailing list on this)
> 
> Does 2.6.26 use nanosecond time
>     (1) internally?
>     (2) provide it to the user?
> 
> I see no way to turn it on/off in xconfig.
> Yet I do see STA_NANO defined in sys/timex.h which is a good start.
> 
> and IF it provides it to the user, what do I use to get nanosecond time.
> My search with man -k for timespec turns up
>       sys_clock_getres
> and sys_clock_gettime
> 
> or possibly clock_getres and clock_gettime, the man pages use both,
> but NONE of these entry points seem to exist in my system.
> 
> Puzzled.

clock_gettime should exist. Old glibc version?
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