Re: Trouble with setitimer and getitimer.

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From: Louis A. Mamakos
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:29

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In article <1993Jan8.215238.29927@news2.cis.umn.edu> jalegre@tsp.med.umn.edu (John Alegre) writes:
>I am trying to time a tight SCSI read loop on a 
>NeXT machine.
>
>I am having trouble with the UNIX functions
>setitimer and getitimer.

You don't want to use setitimer or getitimer, which are used to generate
alarm clock signals to your process.  What you really want to use is
gettimeofday() before and after.  Do 'man 2 gettimeofday' and also look
at <sys/timer.h>

Louis Mamakos

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