On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 16:55 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> What is built in to Linux, as a function to handle small increments of
> time less than a second. This may be OT, but my cousin was asking me and
> I know I've seen reference to micro-seconds of time as some kind of
> function. Would anyone please toss me something he might explore??
> Thanx, Ric
man gettimeofday
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The functions gettimeofday() and settimeofday() can get and set the
time as well as a timezone. The tv argument is a struct timeval (as
specified in <sys/time.h>):
struct timeval {
time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
suseconds_t tv_usec; /* microseconds */
};
====
Mike
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