CLOCK_GETRES
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual
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Updated: 2004-03-12
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NAME
clock_getres - Get the resolution of any clock
 
SYNOPSIS
- 
 - long sys_clock_getres (clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp);
 
 
DESCRIPTION
clock_gettime gets the resolution of any clock specified by the which_clock parameter, and places this information in the struct timespec pointed to by tp. The values that clockid_t currently supports for POSIX.1b timers, as defined in include/linux/time.h, are: 
- CLOCK_REALTIME
 - 
Systemwide realtime clock.
 - CLOCK_MONOTONIC
 - 
Represents monotonic time. Cannot be set.
 - CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
 - 
High resolution per-process timer.
 - CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
 - 
Thread-specific timer.
 - CLOCK_REALTIME_HR
 - 
High resolution version of CLOCK_REALTIME.
 - CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR
 - 
High resolution version of CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
 
 
 
RETURN VALUE
clock_gettime returns 0 on success; otherwise, it returns one of the errors listed in the "Errors" section.
 
ERRORS
- -EINVAL
 - 
An invalid which_clock value was specified.
 - -EFAULT
 - 
An invalid tp value was specified.
 
 
SEE ALSO
clock_gettext(2), clock_nanosleep(2), clock_settime(2)
 
AUTHOR
Niki Rahimi