On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Peter Chen wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be nice if such monotonic clock source was in ANSI C? What > > would you say if I wrote an experimental module for monotonic clock > > (only > > for Linux for now, based on uptime), and it would be an option to > > POE::Kernel to either use Time::HiRes::time() or Monotonic::time()? > > This would be very useful for solving my problem, because my daemon > > only > > cares about delays. Dual time scale implementation of POE::Kernel can > > wait (or be somewhere on a branch). > > If you take a look at the postings dated back in April, you will find > that such API already exists, it's POSIX::times. There is no need to > reinvent the wheel. Yeah, that's what I'd do. You have to convert the value differently based on your OS (128 ticks per second for FreeBSD?) - Dmitri.
