On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 07:21 -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 7/12/05, R.Kaushik Kumar <kaukum@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > hi all, > > > > Is it possible to use "jiffies" in user space? > > if not can we convert some clock value (like > > gettimeofday()) into jiffies units? > > or any other way out? /proc/uptime gives you the uptime of the system in seconds, and as there are HZ timer interrupts (i.e. jiffies) in a second, uptime(in sec)*HZ should be your desired information. Wieland -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
