Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:17:13 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > What for? It should be invisible to userspace...
It's not invisible. select/poll/epoll/setitimer round their time argument according to HZ, and programs which do smooth (i.e. low _jitter_) animation of the kind where the eye is sensitive to the jitter need to track it and correct for it.
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