On Gwe, 2005-07-15 at 00:19, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That's not what "jiffies" are about. If you want accurate time, use > something else, like gettimeofday. The timeouts are _only_ relevant on the > scale of a timer interrupt, since by definition that's what we're waiting > for.
Ok makes sense - thats the same reason I wanted jiffies() - the timer interrupt resolution might be useless at the given time (eg seconds). It does mean people using while loops testing against jiffies are generally wrong still. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
