Re: clock_getres() and real resolution

2012-02-11 Thread Richard Cochran
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:32:16AM -0800, Dmitry Antipov wrote: On 02/09/2012 10:40 AM, Richard Cochran wrote: I thought this list was about Linux kernel development, but now it seems to be about Sun's old bugs. This Sun (probably) has ~10x more accurate hrtimers than it's said

Re: clock_getres() and real resolution

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Cochran
On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:31:03AM -0800, Dmitry Antipov wrote: IIUC, an idea behind clock_getres() is to give a hint about the resolution of specified clock. This hint may be used by an application programmer to check whether this clock is suitable for a some purpose. So why clock_getres()

Re: clock_getres() and real resolution

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Cochran
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:25:33AM -0800, Dmitry Antipov wrote: Old Sun Fire 880, SunOS 5.10 Generic_139555-08. 100ns precision with 10ms finest timer unit??? I thought this list was about Linux kernel development, but now it seems to be about Sun's old bugs. Richard