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camh
camh

Reputation: 42478

Does Linux provide a monotonically increasing clock to applications

Does Linux/Unix/Posix provide an API to user-space applications to access a monotonically increasing clock, with centisecond to millisecond accuracy?

On Linux, /proc/uptime provides a string-based representation of a floating point number of the number of seconds the system has been up.

gettimeofday(2) does not provide a monotonically increasing clock.

I could use getitimer(2) in the ITIMER_REAL time domain, set the timer to start at the (platform dependent) maximum and ignore the signal generated, but according to the man page the longest the timer can run for is approximately 100 days, which is shorter than my expected run time.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 4773

Answers (2)

Robert Gamble
Robert Gamble

Reputation: 109092

Use the POSIX clock_gettime() function with CLOCK_MONOTONIC. See the man page for details.

Upvotes: 14

DGentry
DGentry

Reputation: 16248

There is clock_gettime:

struct timespec tp;
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tp);

Upvotes: 6

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