Is there a POSIX compliant function which returns the current time with
at-least a milli-second precision?  The gettimeofday() in sys/time.h is
not POSIX compliant (i.e. will not compile with _POSIX_C_SOURCE defined)

Thanks.
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: Is there a POSIX compliant function which returns the current time with
: at-least a milli-second precision?  The gettimeofday() in sys/time.h is
: not POSIX compliant (i.e. will not compile with _POSIX_C_SOURCE defined)

In POSIX, time() returns seconds since 1 Jan 70.  Anything else is
system-dependant.

Will

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Ron.

 >> In POSIX, time() returns seconds since 1 Jan 70.  Anything else is
 >> system-dependant.

 Ron> What about clock_gettime(3). On Digital UNIX 3.2G, its man page
 Ron> claims that the function is P1003.1b

That's the POSIX Realtime spec, not the core POSIX.1 standard. The
Single Unix spec defines the realtime functions as an optional feature
group.

In practice, gettimeofday() is more portable, though it isn't part of
POSIX.

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