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

Fons Adriaensen fons.adriaensen at alcatel.be
Fri Feb 28 11:05:01 UTC 2003


Steve Harris writes:
 > 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.

I know... but when I ran the unit tests I didn't look to closely at
the accuracy,  only to happy that it was working at all :-).    
I'll very this next week.


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FA



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