Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-19 Thread James Cleverdon
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

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-19 Thread James Cleverdon
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

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
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. That's not going to work, jiffies is an internal

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-10 Thread Robert Hancock
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. That's not going to work, jiffies is an internal

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread Vadim Lobanov
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, philip dahlquist wrote: > hi, Hello, > 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. Now, I

easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread philip dahlquist
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:

easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread philip dahlquist
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:

Re: easy softball jiffies quest(ion)

2005-04-08 Thread Vadim Lobanov
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, philip dahlquist wrote: hi, Hello, 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. Now, I might be