Cory Papenfuss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>       Hey all... I've got something that's been bugging me for awhile on this
> project.  I really only need millisecond resolution (since I'm logging data to
> disk), but the hrtime_t doesn't like to be divided by 10000000 (NS_PER_MS), as
> it's a funky type.  Any way I can get around that and get a millisecond
> timestamp?

What do you mean it doesn't like to be divided? hrtime_t is just
an alias for long long.

>       On a related note, I've got a user-space app that can send new
> pthread_make_period_np periods (again in [ms]).  Problem is that if I try to
> send a time greater than 2147 ms, the machine craps out.  I suspect it's a
> rollover on my 
> 
> looptime = <some_int_from_fifo> * 1000000;
> pthread_make_periodic_np(thread[0], genesis+OFFSET, looptime);
> 
> 
> What's a good way to do arithmetic on these hrtime_t creatures?

looptime = <some_int_from_fifo> * (long long) 1000000;

Michael.

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