Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Engraf" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386) | Date | Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:26:43 +0100 |
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> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote: > [.../9 > > > 3) wouldn't it be better to expose a wallclock time thing which > > > has a constant unit of time between all kernels? > > > > What is it? > > > > > > > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() ) > > Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the > user > > changes the date, the counter would also change. > > man 2 times > And use the returned value. > > Bernd > -- > Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ > mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 > Embedded Linux Development and Services
times has only 10ms resolution, we need at least 1ms.
David
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