As others have said, maybe jiffies isn't the time value you want.
However, clock ticks are available in userland via the times system
call.
Note the warning at the end; you'll have to do your comparisons
correctly or fail when the counter overflows.
man 2 times:
...
Return Value
The function times returns the number of clock ticks that have
elapsed since an arbitrary point in the past. For Linux this
point is the moment the system was booted. This return
value may overflow the possible range of type clock_t.
On Friday 08 April 2005 10:02 pm, philip dahlquist wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm on a quest to get access to jiffies in user space so i can write
> a simple stepper motor driver program. i co-opted the "#includes"
> list from alessandro rubini's jit.c file from "linux device drivers"
> to write jfi.c.
>
> this is it:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <linux/config.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
> #include <linux/init.h>
>
> #include <linux/time.h>
> #include <linux/timer.h>
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/spinlock.h>
> #include <linux/interrupt.h>
>
> #include <asm/hardirq.h>
>
>
> int main(void)
> {
> unsigned long j = jiffies + (50 * HZ);
> printf("start jiffies = %9li\n",jiffies);
> while(jiffies < j)
> ;
>
> printf("done jiffies = %9li\n", jiffies);
> return 0;
> }
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