Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 2004 16:54:20 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace |
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Albert Cahalan wrote: > If you rely on sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK) to work, then > your software will support: > > * all systems with a 2.6.xx kernel > * all systems with a 2.4.xx kernel and recent glibc > * all i386 systems running with the default HZ > > That's quite a bit I suppose. Maybe you have no > interest in supporting a 1200 HZ Alpha with an old > kernel or glibc. Maybe you don't care about somebody > running a 2.2.xx kernel with modified HZ.
I'm still unclear. Does sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK), when it is reliable, return HZ or USER_HZ?
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