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gettimer

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NAME

gettimer - Gets value of a per-process timer  

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/timers.h>

int gettimer(        timer_t timerid,
       struct itimerspec *tp) ;
 

PARAMETERS

Specifies the per-process timer to use; this value is obtained from a call to mktimer(). Points to an itimerspec structure.  

DESCRIPTION

The gettimer() function gets the current value of a per-process timer.  

NOTES

The gettimer() function is part of the POSIX 1003.4 real-time extensions, which is not an approved standard. As such, it is liable to change. Trial use  

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the gettimer() function returns the value 0 (zero). Otherwise, the gettimer() function returns a value of -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.

 

ERRORS

If the gettimer() function fails, errno may be set to the following value: The timerid parameter does not specify a known timer.  

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: mktimer(2), reltimer(3), rmtimer(3) delim off


 

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