[fpc-devel] NowUTC in the RTL
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Fri Dec 9 15:45:37 CET 2011
In our previous episode, Marco van de Voort said:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > >
> > > But maybe IMHO this kind of stuff should remain out of sysutils, certainly now
> > > it is not entirely clear, and people are still searching for solutions.
> >
> > That's not the question.
> >
> > clock_gettime is a linux kernel call. No-one is proposing to add it to sysutils.
>
> If we decide to use it via libc, we might not have to add it as a syscall.
>
> > The question is whether clock_gettime is POSIX, and if BSD has it.
> > The linux man page seems to say it is POSIX 2001. My question is if BSD has it.
>
> FreeBSD has it. But OS X hasn't it seems, not even in recent versions.
Let's not forget btw that it is not just a matter of the call, the constants
matter too.
E.g. constants for FreeBSD: (even with clock_gettime, it is not guaranteed that
all clock varieties are supported. Can't get that from the manpages).
So while monotonic exists, it seems to be in seconds. Maybe the precise/fast
freebsd specific ones have low granularity.
>From manpage:
The clock_id argument can be one of five values: CLOCK_REALTIME for time
that increments as a wall clock should, CLOCK_MONOTONIC which
increments
in SI seconds, CLOCK_UPTIME which starts at zero when the kernel boots
and increments monotonically in SI seconds while the machine is
running,
CLOCK_VIRTUAL for time that increments only when the CPU is running in
user mode on behalf of the calling process, or CLOCK_PROF for time that
increments when the CPU is running in user or kernel mode.
and header:
#define CLOCK_REALTIME 0
#ifdef __BSD_VISIBLE
#define CLOCK_VIRTUAL 1
#define CLOCK_PROF 2
#endif
#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC 4
#define CLOCK_UPTIME 5 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_UPTIME_PRECISE 7 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_UPTIME_FAST 8 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_REALTIME_PRECISE 9 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_REALTIME_FAST 10 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_PRECISE 11 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST 12 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_SECOND 13 /* FreeBSD-specific. */
#define CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID 14
#endif /* !defined(CLOCK_REALTIME) && __POSIX_VISIBLE >= 200112 */
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