On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > Alternatively we could just stop exporting timing information to userland in
> > units of HZ.
>
> I vote for this. Userland has no business with HZ; and you could very well
> envision a ssytem where HZ changes (OS sees high CPU bound load ==> HZ goes
> up; load gets more interactive ==> HZ goes down; CPU speeding up/down
> (Crusoe)) or even has no real global meaning anymore ("HZ" depends on the
> specific use)
> --
> Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
> Casilla 9G, Viņa del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
Doesn't POSIX require something to relate to 'clock()' ? I looked at
time.h and timebits.h and, for the 'C' headers I have, it seems to be
implied. Or is clock() not required?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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