Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] POSIX clocks now in linux 2.5
From: Fons Adriaensen (fons.adriaensen_AT_alcatel.be)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 17:56:12 EET
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.
-- FA
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