linux-kernel - Re: Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user?

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Message-ID: <48931994.7090402@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:11:32 -0500
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Reg Clemens <reg@....com>
CC:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, reg@...dwf.com
Subject: Re: Does 2.6.26 provide nanosecond time to the user?

Reg Clemens wrote:

> Thanks, -lrt works fine, that answers that part of the question, how about
> the first question.

The kernels use a variety of clocks internally. If the clocks are capable of
nanosecond resolution then the results will be available via clock_gettime().



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