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Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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.\" $NetBSD: time.9,v 1.1 1995/11/25 21:24:53 perry Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994 Christopher G. Demetriou
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Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to track. The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment, like so; .\" $Id$ .\" If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines. Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted. Approved by: bde
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Bring kernel time variable and access function docs up to date by updating the list of variables and mentioning the bin(up)time functions.
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.Dd September 17, 2004
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.Dt TIME 9
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.Os
Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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.Sh NAME
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.In sys/time.h
Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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.Nm boottime ,
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.Nm time_second ,
.Nm time_uptime
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.Nd system time variables
.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Bl -item -compact
.It
.Va extern struct timeval boottime ;
.It
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.Va extern struct time_t time_second ;
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.It
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.Va extern struct timeval time_uptime ;
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.El
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Va boottime
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variable holds the system boot time.
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.Pp
The
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.Va time_second
variable is the system's
.Dq wall time
clock to the second.
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.Pp
The
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.Va time_uptime variable is the number of seconds since boot.
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.Pp
The
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.Xr bintime 9,
.Xr getbintime 9 ,
.Xr microtime 9 ,
.Xr getmicrotime 9 ,
.Xr nanotime 9 ,
and
.Xr getnanotime 9 ,
functions can be used to get the current time more accurately and in an
atomic manner.
Similarly, the
Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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The
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.Xr binuptime 9,
.Xr getbinuptime 9 ,
.Xr microuptime 9 ,
.Xr getmicrouptime 9 ,
.Xr nanouptime 9 ,
Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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and
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.Xr getnanouptime 9 ,
functions can be used to get the time elapse since boot more accurately
and in an atomic manner.
The
.Va boottime
variable may be read and written without special precautions.
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.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr clock_settime 2 ,
.Xr ntp_adjtime 2 ,
Add time(9) to document the kernel time variables. Obtained from NetBSD and then modified by me to reflect some FreeBSD specific things and to clarify some other pointed based on some old mail from Bruce Evans about this man page.
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.Xr settimeofday 2 ,
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.Xr getbintime 9 ,
.Xr getbinuptime 9 ,
.Xr getmicrotime 9 ,
.Xr getmicrouptime 9 ,
.Xr getnanotime 9 ,
.Xr getnanouptime 9 ,
.Xr bintime 9 ,
.Xr binuptime 9 ,
.Xr microtime 9 ,
.Xr microuptime 9 ,
.Xr nanotime 9,
.Xr nanouptime 9
.Rs
.%A "Poul-Henning Kamp"
.%T "Timecounters: Efficient and precise timekeeping in SMP kernels"
.%J "Proceedings of EuroBSDCon 2002"
.%C "Amsterdam"
.%O /usr/share/doc/papers/timecounter.ascii.gz
.Re
.Rs
.%A "Marshall Kirk McKusick"
.%A "George V. Neville-Neil"
.%B "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"
.%D "July 2004"
.%I "Addison-Wesley"
.%P "57-61,65-66"
.Re
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