Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: POSIX 1003.1b timer minor fixes | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 27 Jul 1999 09:33:00 -0700 |
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Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> On the other side I wonder why are sys_clock_* in the kernel unless higher > than microsecond resolution is implemented. It seems to me like they really > don't do any job which could not be done in glibc, and do > not give even any performance advantages over it.
No, this would be worthless. These are realtime extensions which are deisgned to have high accuracy and fast response times. With a userlevel implementation doing some multiplexing based on whatever timer would not help at all.
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