Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386) | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 06 Dec 2005 12:47:07 -0700 |
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"David Engraf" <engraf.david@netcom-sicherheitstechnik.de> writes:
> This patch adds a new systemcall on i386 architectures returning the jiffies > value to the application. > As a kernel developer you can use jiffies but from the user space there is > no equivalent function which counts every millisecond like the Win32 > GetTickCount.
You want a timer that never go backwards, right?
Use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). It's the POSIX way to do this.
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