On Tuesday, 12. June 2001 18:48, Dmitri wrote:
> Quoting Wolfgang Mües <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Monday, 11. June 2001 23:24, Brad Hards wrote:
> > > timeout is in jiffies, and is the time waited from URB submission to
> > > getting a -ETIMEOUT if things go wrong. Normally HZ is a good thing to
> > > put in here.
> >
> > May I ask for the definition of "jiffies", because I have found nothing
> > similar in my physic book regarding the measurement of time....
>
> It is a global, volatile variable that counts time in ticks.
> See /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/time.c for boring details.
Please excuse me, but "jiffies" seems to be used as a time unit,
not as a variable.
Can you explain "timeout is in jiffies" to a user who don't know
anything about "jiffies" and "ticks" ?
best regards
Wolfgang Mües
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