Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: finding out the value of HZ from userspace | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:27:03 +0100 |
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Peter Williams <peterw@aurema.com> writes:
> This horrible hack of converting all tick values to 100 (from 1000) > for export to user space because a large number of user space programs > assume that HZ is 100 would NOT be necessary if there was a mechanism > whereby user space programs could find out how many ticks there are in > a second instead of having to make assumptions.
Already exists for a long time - AT_CLKTCK. glibc has a nice wrapper for it too (sysconf)
-Andi
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