[linux-audio-dev] POSIX clocks now in linux 2.5

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Feb 28 10:35:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 03:49:59 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Is this really new ? I was porting some C++ thread classes (originally
> developed for Solaris) to 2.4.19 this week. The ITC mechanism uses
> pthread_cond_timedwait(), which takes a struct timespec * referring to
> an absolute time, the same you can get with clock_gettime(). I had the 
> impression this gave me almost microsecond resolution timing (but I did
> not look closesly at the precision at the time).

There is a bif difference between how my resolution you can specify and
how accurate it is.

- Steve



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