77 lines
2.6 KiB
Groff
77 lines
2.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information
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.\" Processing Systems.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)clock.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt CLOCK 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm clock
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.Nd determine processor time used
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In time.h
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.Ft clock_t
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.Fn clock void
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn clock
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function
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determines the amount of processor time used since the invocation of the
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calling process, measured in
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.Dv CLOCKS_PER_SEC Ns s
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of a second.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The
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.Fn clock
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function returns the amount of time used unless an error occurs, in which
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case the return value is \-1.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getrusage 2 ,
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.Xr clocks 7
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn clock
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function conforms to
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.St -isoC .
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However,
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.St -susv2
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requires
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.Dv CLOCKS_PER_SEC
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to be defined as one million.
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.Fx
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does not conform to this requirement;
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changing the value would introduce binary incompatibility
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and one million is still inadequate on modern processors.
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